Ethiopia was rocked by a record 10 earthquakes in just 24 hours this week, raising fears of recurring tremors in recent weeks ...

Studies of seismicity, age of faulting, age of volcanoes and short and long wavelength gravity anomalies all indicate that the evolution of the East African rift system is related to attenuation ...

Kenya and Tanzania, the East African countries most often chosen for safari, are justifiably famous for their wildlife. For ...

Some of the world's most spectacular but least-known volcanoes lie along the East African Rift, a wide crack in the Earth's crust that runs for more than 1,200 miles from Malawi through Tanzania ...

The Volcano was created 3 million years ago after the East African Rift was opened. Before the formation of glaciers, the mountain was 7000 metres high and covered with an ice cap for many years ...

and towering peaks that characterize the Great Rift Valley are every bit as inspiring as their inhabitants. Here are some of my favorite vantage points. Here, four East African adventures that ...

The type of lava erupted by Nyiragongo and many volcanoes in the East Rift zone of Africa, called alkaline lava, has an extremely low viscosity, making it almost as fluid as water. Alkaline lava ...

Solving issues to achieve optimum development of the Great Rift Valley’s unique geothermal systems Kenya is in the process of switching its main source of power from hydropower, which is unstable due ...

However, the HVO says all current and recent activity is still within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. No changes have been detected in the East Rift Zone or Southwest Rift Zone, the agency says.