Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an ...

Africa is undergoing a gradual geological transformation, with tectonic forces slowly pulling the continent apart. This ...

“The African continent is undergoing a slow, monumental split due to tectonic plate movements in the Afar Triangle. A new ...

Vance, a Catholic convert, accused the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops of resettling “illegal immigrants.” ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

This has been caused by movements tectonic plates that are pulling away ... Already, you can see from photos that the rift runs through Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania.

In 2005, a 35-mile long fissure took place in Ethiopia's desert, known as the East African Rift. It marked the start of a long process in which the African plate is splitting into two tectonic plates ...

In its updated bulletin, PHIVOLCS said the earthquake occurred offshore around six kilometers from San Francisco at 07:39 a.m. The earthquake had a depth of focus of 14 kilometers and was tectonic in ...

In the Mianyang-Changning rift trough, the continuous reflectors in the lower part of the Dengying Formation indicate continuous strata, while the middle and upper reflectors exhibit significant ...

Most are in the Ethiopian Rift, the northern segment of the East ... is composed of solid rock and is broken into large sections called tectonic plates. These plates fit together like pieces ...