A New Ocean is Forming in Africa

In 2005, a 60 km crack ripped open in the Ethiopian desert in 10 days. Scientists said it was the equivalent of several hundred years of tectonic movement happening at once.

That was a preview of what is coming. Africa is splitting in two along the East African Rift System, which is a 4,000-mile fracture zone where the Nubian and Somali plates are pulling apart. When the process completes, seawater from the Red Sea and Indian Ocean will flood in, and create a brand new sixth ocean.

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