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

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

Sunday’s earthquake was the strongest to hit Kenya’s coastal region in over 30 years, with the last quake of similar or ...

If the two tectonic plates continue to shift and the EAR system widens further, eventually a large basin will form. Due to the close proximity of the Indian Ocean, it’s likely that the basin ...

Everest, about 60 million years ago, was the rapid movement of India northward toward the continent of EuroAsia; Click here for a present-day map of the Indian ... Earth's tectonic plates like ...

In the Indian Ocean, there is a place where the laws of gravity ... Credit: NASA / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Gravity is not the same everywhere because mountains, tectonic plates, differences ...

Scientists have used GPS and satellite mapping to track how the tectonic plates underlying Africa ... allowing the Indian Ocean to flood the area and making the easternmost corner of Africa ...