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 been increasingly active in the past two decades, leading to speculation ...

Scientists have known for the past two decades that Africa has been splitting. In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in th ...

The movements of tectonic plates are more than usual and, in many cases, they are not of major importance. In addition, if there is one thing that the geographical history of the w ...

Six of the majors are named for the continents embedded within them, such as the North American, African, and Antarctic plates. Though smaller in size, the minors are no less important when it ...

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, according to scientists. Experts have long known that ...

Before Plate Tectonics arrived and different collisions ... Future Continental Breakup: If rifting continues, the Horn of Africa may eventually separate from the main African continent, forming ...