A groundbreaking study reveals that East Africa is splitting faster than previously believed due to a fiery upwelling of molten rock from Earth’s mantle. The East African Rift could soon birth a ...

In East Africa, geothermal energy is big business, and that’s all thanks to the East African Rift System (EARS). One of the largest rift systems on Earth —stretching 4,000 miles from Ethiopia ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: The East African Rift System (EARS) is one of the most impressive geologic features on the planet—not to mention one of the most volcanically active ...

The East African Rift system made up the western and eastern continental rifts, and stretches from the Afar region of Ethiopia down to Mozambique. It is an active continental rift that began ...

As a postdoctoral researcher, Stamps began observing the East African Rift System’s unusual, rift-parallel deformation using data from GPS stations that measured signals from more than 30 ...

The East African Rift System (EARS) is a 4,000-mile-long continent rift that stretches from Jordan in southwestern Asia into east Africa around Mozambique.

Here’s how it works. The East African Rift System drives volcanic activity in places like the Erta Ale volcano in Ethiopia (pictured here). (Image credit: Mike Korostelev via Getty Images) ...

Computer models confirm that the African Superplume is responsible for the unusual deformations, as well as rift-parallel seismic anisotropy observed beneath the East African Rift System.

In East Africa, geothermal energy is big business, and that’s all thanks to the East African Rift System (EARS). One of the largest rift systems on Earth —stretching 4,000 miles from Ethiopia ...