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

Seismic upheaval in the Awash Fentale area has uprooted thousands from their homes. It has also raised questions about the ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

One of the world's continents is breaking apart faster than researchers previously predicted. The separation would create a ...

Eritrea is a northeast African country on the Red Sea coast. It shares borders with Ethiopia, Sudan and Djibouti. The capital ...

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"You'll be feeling earthquakes, you'll be seeing volcanoes erupt ... northern part was reasonably well understood, going through Djibouti and into Kenya, but going south from there, people ...

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

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

A bit further away is Dubbi volcano which erupted in 1861. Structurally, the Danakil Alps, the extension towards Djibouti (together called the Danakil Block) and the Ali-Sabieh Block were once part of ...

The Axial Seamount—a volcano located 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and a mile underwater—is slowly showing signs of an impending eruption. Although less well-known that other volcanic ...