A scientist has warned that an area of East Africa could break away from the rest of the continent sooner than previously ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

A 35-mile-long fissure in Ethiopia’s desert emerged in 2005 but has since ... the waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley,' Macdonald said.

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

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 ...

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

Ethiopia is grappling with an escalating seismic crisis as a series of earthquakes linked to the East African Rift raises ...

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 the ...

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

The giant fissure from above in Ethiopia (Picture ... the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley,’ Ken Macdonald, a professor at the University of ...