A giant crack in the heart of the Great Rift Valley Since 2005, the Great Rift Valley region, at the junction of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, has been undergoing a dramatic transformation. A fissure ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as the East African Rift. Far from being a mere curiosity, this rift holds ...

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, splitting the African plate into two unequal parts: the Somali and Nubian plates.

The formation of the East African Rift, a 56-kilometer-long rift in the deserts of Ethiopia formed in 2005, marked the beginning of the creation of a new sea. How is the prediction calculated ...

In East Africa, geothermal energy is big business, and that’s all thanks to the East African Rift System (EARS). One of the largest rift systems on Earth—stretching 4,000 miles from Ethiopia ...

The East African Rift is more than a crack in the desert; it is a glimpse into the Earth's tectonic future and a reminder of the profound forces shaping our world. Earth's seven major tectonic plates.

During an expedition to British East Africa in 1892–93 Prof. Gregory confirmed Suess's conclusions, with some modifications as to the age and origin of the Great Rift Valley, the formation of ...

The split in Ethiopia, known as the East African Rift Valley, occurred in 2005, but the full development into a new ocean may not be complete for another 5 to 10 million years.