News Source: The Courier-Mail
| 23 days ago
African continent in two owing to a recent geological crack in northeastern Ethiopia, researchers said today. The 60km split in the desolate Afar region, which was the result of two volcanic eruptions in September 2005, has enabled scientists to...
News Source: Fox News
| 23 days ago
But that view was controversial, and the rift had not been well studied. A new study involving an international team of scientists and reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds the processes creating the rift are nearly identical to...
News Source: NewKerala
| 23 days ago
In addition, such sudden large-scale events on land pose a much more serious hazard to populations living near the rift than would several smaller events, according to Cindy Ebinger, professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of...