A groundbreaking study reveals that East Africa is splitting faster than previously believed due to a fiery upwelling of ...

Stretching 4,000 miles, the East African Rift System is one of the largest in the world—and scientists just uncovered the ...

Scientists are nearly certain a new ocean is forming.

A 35-mile-long fissure is cutting through Ethiopia’s crust. Known as the East African Rift, it keeps spreading wider.

Annual precipitation is heaviest in the southwest, scant in the Great Rift Valley and the Ogaden, and negligible in the Denakil Depression. More about the >Geography of Ethiopia.

The Western Rift Valley, meanwhile ... Within weeks of the 2005 event, Ebinger was on a plane to Ethiopia, where she worked with scientists from around the world to get geophysical instruments ...

A 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck across the Ethiopian Rift Valley, west of Lake Awash, Mount Fentale area, and in the town of Metehara, sending some residents running for shelter.