0 Natural Phenomena: Earth is Split in Africa

In 2005 the dialogue of the Addis Ababa University, the Degree Ayello and his team had tried to set kakidi desert plains of Afar in Ethiopia. But they immediately surprised when they walk on the earth shook and split, then crack open the ground quickly. The researchers then realized that they had become a living witness history in which for the first time people can watch the early stages of the birth of an ocean. Surprisingly cracks that occur in an area that stretches 900 kilometers along the widening reach 8 feet in 10 days.

Though normally it takes about 230 years for cracks to reach a width of 8 meters. Moreover, in a few months has turned up hundreds gap that separates the desert base. At the same time other scientists found the increase in height of the earth's magma closer to the surface of the soil. Magma is what will form the basis of ocean basalt. And then the water of the Red Sea will meet down the region, the ocean will be born then broke the African continent.

Afar triangle cut Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti it is the biggest crack in the earth beneath the plates are African and Arabic it is now getting away with a speed of 1-2 cm per year. When two plates move away, land on it will drop and provide space to accommodate water from the Red Sea.