The East African Rift may be drifting apart quicker than expected, one geologist warned. The rift is a massive 20-plus-million-year-old continental crack in the Earth's surface stretching across ...

but now that it had reached the Earth’s crust, it raised new questions. Was Africa splitting apart? What would that mean for the continent? Then, in 2018, more cracks began to appear.

Though no one currently on Earth (or even their great-great ... and extends to Mozambique and Zimbabwe in the south. Big crack is evidence East Africa is splitting in two. Don't hold your breath ...

A slow-moving geological change in East Africa could reshape the continent and the world. Tectonic forces are gradually ...

Kenya’s Rift Valley Crack (2018 ... The splitting of Africa isn’t an isolated event; continents have drifted apart and re-merged at least three times throughout Earth’s history.

Some of the world's most spectacular but least-known volcanoes lie along the East African Rift, a wide crack in the Earth's crust that runs for more than 1,200 miles from Malawi through Tanzania ...

The East African Rift System (EARS) was initially identified in 2005, with its origins dating back around 22 million years, according to earth.com. The East African Rift results from the movement ...