The East African Rift System is a 4,000-mile-long, 22-million-year-old zone that extends from Jordan to Mozambique. And it's ...

Scientists have known for the past two decades that Africa has been splitting. In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in th ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries ... On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart. If the plates there ...

Millions of years from now, northern Africa could be home to a new ocean, as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that ...

The movements of tectonic plates are more than usual and, in many cases, they are not of major importance. In addition, if there is one thing that the geographical history of the w ...

By Julian James The emergence of this new ocean is tied to the gradual movement of tectonic plates. The African, Arabian, and Somali plates are drifting apart, creating the East African Rift—a ...

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

A screenshot from a video showing Brooke Coleman walking between two tectonic plates in Iceland ... and the South American Plate from the African Plate in the South Atlantic.

A 35-mile-long fissure in East Africa signals the continent’s gradual separation, leading to the formation of a new ocean in the future. This tectonic activity, involving the Somali and Nubian Plates, ...

such as the Campi Flegrei volcano in Italy - where the Eurasian plate and the African Atlantic plate are moving towards each other along the Mediterranean sea.