A massive crack in East Africa is growing fast. Scientists believe it could one day split the continent and form Earth’s ...

Scientists say Africa is slowly splitting in two due to molten rock pulses beneath Ethiopia, potentially forming a new ocean ...

"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

The East African Rift may be drifting apart quicker than expected, one geologist warned. The rift is a massive 20-plus-million-year-old continental crack in the Earth's surface stretching across ...

In the 1997 action film "Dante's Peak," Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a volcanologist sent to investigate seismic activity ...

A 35-mile-long crack, known as the East African Rift, is gradually tearing through the landscape—marking the early stages of a colossal geological shift. Africa is splitting—and Earth's sixth ...

A NEW ocean is forming beneath Ethiopia as a “heartbeat”-like pulse deep below the Earth’s surface splits the African ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

A group of researchers from across the world has found that a steady, rhythmic pulse deep beneath Ethiopia’s Afar region, ...

Though no one currently on Earth (or even their great-great-great grandchildren) will live to see it, one day, the African continent could be cut in half and separated by a new body of water. The ...

A slow, rhythmic pulse of hot rock has been found beneath Africa’s fault lines in Ethiopia. Over millions of years, it could ...

The East African Rift System stretches more than 2,000 miles from the Red Sea in the north down to Mozambique in the south. ... the outer shell of the Earth, making it more likely to crack.