The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

Ethiopia’s Rift Valley has experienced at least 10 recent earthquakes, with the strongest reaching a 5.8 magnitude, ...

A scientist has warned that an area of East Africa could break away from the rest of the continent sooner than previously ...

In Ethiopia’s Afar region, this rift spans over 37 miles and plunges up to 10 meters deep. In 2005, this area showed the rift’s unpredictability when over 420 earthquakes struck in a period ...

"Some residents in Awash and Dulecha districts are reluctant to evacuate, particularly pastoralist communities concerned about their livestock and property," reads the note from the United Nations ...

Given enough time—at least several million years—those processes will produce dramatic changes in the geography of Africa: The Afar depression and the entire Great Rift Valley will cradle a ...

In tens of millions of years, hundreds of miles of this rift could be covered in water, this ocean has already been named the Afar. Importance: Witnessing the birth of a new ocean. Dive category ...

Since late September 2024, the Main Ethiopian Rift, encompassing the Afar, Amhara, and Oromia regions, has been affected by a series of tremors and a significant earthquake. The epicenter of this ...

The Ethiopian Disaster Risk Management Council has announced that more than 58,000 citizens have been relocated from Afar ...

The explosions in December led to the exodus of the estimated 10,000 community members living in Seganto. Today, Seganto remains empty. Hassan Kamil Konte, a community elder, fled and now lives in a ...