A swarm of earth tremors and fears of volcanic eruptions in January forced tens of thousands of people to move away from Awash Fentale, an area in the Afar region of Ethiopia. The area falls within a ...

Time and time again, Hollywood has embraced an imminent apocalypse, as films like “2012” beamed the fictionalized end of the world onto the big screen. Fortunately, the scientific logic for many such ...

Geologists say the Great Rift Valley was formed by the Earth's tectonic plates pulling away from each other, about 30 million years ago. The process continues, they say, at about six mm per year, with ...