The Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, though at a pace so slow we rarely notice. But if we fast-forward 250 million ...

Africa is splitting in two, and it’s happening way faster than scientists thought! 🌍⚡ A massive crack is forming along the ...

other places The vast archipelago nation experiences frequent earthquakes due to its position on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", an arc of intense seismic activity where tectonic plates collide that ...

The East African Rift System is a 4,000-mile-long, 22-million-year-old zone that extends from Jordan to Mozambique. And it's ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

The driver of all this is plate tectonics: Earth’s surface is divided into several dozen plates, which move horizontally. Figuring out how this got started, however, has proved surprisingly ...

Seismologists have said the latest seismic activity, the result of moving tectonic plates and magma, has pushed subsurface layers of the island upwards.

A new ocean is being created in East Africa through changes ... both the socio-economic and political map of our planet. The shifts in the tectonic plates will displace, and realign, flora and ...

He set his sights on Kenya, his country’s neighbor to the south, where he found a job in a cafe, then farther south still, to South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest economy, where he had ...

was a result of naturally occurring variation in the geological features of the region and not due to plate tectonics, a senior scientist said. The 4.0 magnitude earthquake had its epicentre at ...

In this file photo Ethiopians are seen protesting against outside interventions in the conflict in the country's northern Tigray region, at a demonstration held at a stadium in the capital Addis ...

In mid-December, China marked the thirtieth anniversary of the official inauguration of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, the world’s largest hydroelectric project (in terms of ...