Over millions of years, the African continent will cleave in two, and scientists say a new ocean will one day fill the gap.

The East African Rift threatens to split the massive contient into two plates in the distant future, though geological events ...

Pastoralists displaced by recurring earthquakes in the Awash Fentale district of the Afar region and sheltering at the Daido site in Amibara district have refused government attempts to relocate them, ...

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

Lying deep in the African desert sits the colourful and supersaturated hot springs of the world's 'hottest' town.

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

Following the designation of the original evacuation sites--where households displaced by recent seismic activity in the Afar ...

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.

East Africa's Afar depression is one of the world's most geologically hyperactive regions. Fly over it in an airplane—or in a one-person motorized paraglider, as photographer George Steinmetz ...

With the formation of this ocean, Africa's map will be redrawn, and its ecosystem will undergo demographic changes.

"Over the past few weeks, several earthquakes originating from the Great Rift Valley have been recorded in Ethiopia, mainly affecting the Afar region and the Awash Fentale district. Tremors were also ...