Recent seismic research has unveiled a fascinating geological phenomenon occurring beneath the Pacific Northwest. The Earth’s crust is tearing apart, a process driven by tectonic forces in the region.

Eastern Africa’s Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of volcanic activity caused by shifting tectonic plates. Now researchers have found ...

Climate change is accelerating continental rifting, the geological process where landmasses slowly pull apart. According to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports, the East African ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shot of the Main Ethiopian Rift, taken at Boset Volcano in Ethiopia. - Courtesy Prof. Thomas Gernon/University of Southampton ...

Africa is gradually splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift, a tectonic process driven by the movement of the Nubian and Somalian Plates. Over millions of years, this rifting will ...

A segment of eastern Africa is "primed" to peel away from the rest of the continent far sooner than scientists had previously realized, according to new research. The spot in question is the Turkana ...

A continental rifting process that normally takes millions of years to form has developed over a span of seven weeks in the Afar region of north-eastern Ethiopia. It was a close study, using radar ...