The East African Rift System bisects the horn of Africa—the Nubian plate to the west moving away from the Somalian plate to the east—before forking down either side of Uganda. The western rift ...

The African, Arabian, and Somali plates are drifting apart, creating the East African Rift—a massive fault line expanding over millions of years. For 30 million years, the Arabian Plate has been ...

with a 35-mile crack along the East African rift in Afar currently under watch. Experts monitoring the gap say the deepening crack will eventually separate from the rest of the continent as water ...

In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in the desert called the East African Rift. "It marked the start of a long process in which the ...

A 35-mile-long crack was discovered along a section of the East African Rift (EAR) in Afar, Ethiopia, in 2005, and experts say it will eventually separate from the rest of the continent as a new ...

as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that portions of the continent are separating by as much as 0.3 inches a year in ...

A BBC/Animal Planet co-production, the three-part series focuses on the landscape and wildlife of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa.