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

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

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

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

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

The East African Rift Valley stretches over 3,000km ... by surface manifestations along the rift valley in the form of volcanism and seismic activity. Rifts are the initial stage of a continental ...

Scientists are predicting that Earth's eighth continent could develop a lot sooner than initially thought. We'll be long dead ...

The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts that are punctuated with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions ... giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are ...

Spanning an area of 50 hectares in the Great Rift Valley, between the extinct volcanoes of Mount Olorgesailie and Mount ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

Earth once just had one continent known as Pangea that slowly broke apart to form the continents we know today.