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.

In the scorching deserts of East Africa, the ground is slowly tearing itself apart — a slow-motion, geological drama. Over millions of years, the African continent will cleave in two, and scientists ...

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 rift is a massive 20-plus-million-year-old continental crack in the Earth's surface stretching across East Africa through the Red Sea, with its two tectonic plates, the Nubian and Somali ...

The East African Rift System stretches more than 2,000 miles from the Red Sea in the north down to Mozambique in the south. It's the largest active continental rift on Earth, where the tectonic ...

Different rifts move at different rates, with some plates moving apart from each other faster than others. "The East African Rift formed already 30 million years ago, and its spreading is very slow.

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

In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in the desert called the East African Rift.

A giant rift is slowly tearing Africa, the second-largest continent, apart. This depression — known as the East African Rift — is a network of valleys that stretches about 2,175 miles (3,500 ...

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 35-mile-long split, known as the East African Rift, formed in 2005, but any development into a new ocean will take around five to 10 million years, researchers said. "The Gulf of Aden and the ...