Earth’s continents may look fixed on a globe, but they’ve been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years – and ...

The Pacific "Ring of Fire" is a seismically active zone encircling the Pacific Ocean, where frequent earthquakes and numerous ...

The crack runs along a section of the East African Rift (EAR) in Afar, Ethiopia. It is one of the few places on Earth that is actively being separated by continuous forces of tectonic plates, with ...

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, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of the ...

The East African Rift System (EARS) is the largest active continental rift system on Earth. It is in the process of ripping through around 2,175miles (3,500km) of Africa.

Africa is tearing in HALF: Scientists detect deep Earth pulses beneath Ethiopia - in ominous sign that the entire continent could rupture ...

Rift zones typically stretch and pull tectonic plates until they eventually rupture. But how the plume beneath Afar’s is structured, how it behaves, and how it is influencing the crust above it ...

“The work shows that deep mantle upwellings can flow beneath the base of tectonic plates and help to focus volcanic activity to where the tectonic plate is thinnest. Follow on research includes ...

Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, involving tectonic plate movements, could reshape the continent’s ...