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

A security camera near Thazi, Myanmar, captured the earth cracking during a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in March.

Scientists are nearly certain a new ocean is forming. Tectonic plates shifting in Africa could one day cause a new ocean to ...

where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways in relation to each other. They move at a rate of one to two inches (three to five centimeters) per year. Where plates serving ...

Scientists tracking tectonic activity along the East African Rift say the continent is slowly splitting apart, People ...

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's outer ... The land masses continued to move apart, riding on separate plates, until they reached the positions they currently occupy.

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, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

are where tectonic plates pull apart due to convection currents in the ... The oceanic plate is denser than the continental plate. As they move together, the oceanic plate is forced underneath ...