The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced and seized the ...

Scientists have warned that an entire continent could tear itself apart, literally. A massive crack is emerging in the ...

The Afar region is a rare place on Earth where three tectonic rifts meet - the Main Ethiopian Rift, the Red Sea Rift, and the ...

Two directors at a North Wales law firm have raised vital funds for charity after successfully climbing North Africa's highest peak.

On June 21, 1990, an earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale struck northwestern Iran, killing up to 50,000 people.

The earthquake, measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale, struck approximately 631 kilometres north of Rashid. The epicentre was located at a latitude of 35.12°N and a longitude of 27.0°E, with a depth of ...

Iceland sits atop a similar rift area as Northern Africa, and it's possible to scuba dive into a lake that has formed between the separating areas.. When was the last time we got a new ocean? Without ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

Watch: Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park surrounded the younger elephants in a protective “alert circle” when a 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck the region Monday morning.

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake near Julian rattled much of Southern California and Tijuana just after 10 a.m. Monday, prompting brief evacuations in downtown San Diego and shaking cities as far away ...

A moderate earthquake, followed by three smaller quakes, shook California’s Northern Coast in Humboldt County Tuesday night, after that morning's 4.1 magnitude quake already fraying nerves.