Over the course of a couple days in September 2005—amidst a flurry of volcanic eruptions and hundreds of earthquakes—the ground in northeast Ethiopia split wide open. For millions of years, a bubble ...

Africa appears to be relatively stable geologically. However, many forces are at play underneath the surface of the continent, resulting in its break-up. And scientists claim this is proceeding faster ...

The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift, the African continent is being pulled apart by forces deep below the ...

Kenya's Great Rift Valley Shankar S. from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 Around 250 million years ago, Earth’s modern-day landmasses were united in a supercontinent ...