Scientists have known for the past two decades that Africa has been splitting. In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in th ...

On the Somali peninsula, three tectonic plates meet in a region known as the Afar Triangle. The Nubian plate, comprising most of the African continent; the Somali plate, comprising easternmost ...

the Somali plate and the Nubian plate, Unilad stated. Then in 2018, Kenya experienced another fissure along the rift. Why is the African continent dividing and splitting? The Rift’s Scientific Basis ...

Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, DR Congo, Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique will be affected by the split between the Nubian and Somali plates. The plates are diverging by 7 mm every year.

Before Plate Tectonics arrived and different collisions occurred, Pangea a supercontinent existed. Let’s see in detail about Pangea, its formations & geography and what is the relevance of ...