A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

While continental drifts take eons to fully effectuate, this ongoing split has experts concerned about its rapid progress.

This continent may be dividing in two, according to a startling finding on the map of Earth. Africa is expected to split but only within millions of years.

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all ...

Experts monitoring the gap say the deepening crack will eventually separate from the rest of the continent as water emerges, effectively reshaping the world map ... the East African Rift Valley." ...

as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that portions of the continent are separating by as much as 0.3 inches a year in ...

Global efforts for a Rift Valley ... Kenya’s Rift Valley in the 1930s. However, in recent decades, it has been detected in many African countries and parts of the Middle East, putting more ...

In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in the desert called the East African Rift. "It marked the start of a long process in which the ...