Scientists pointed out that a major crack in Kenya is a sign of the African continent splitting into two

In March 2018 flooding occurred in Kenya due to heavy rain, causing huge walls of the hospital to collapse, making it impossible to pass through the highway, and so on. Moreover, this heavy rainfall is a "Great Lift Valley"We caused a large scale crack around the area. Scientists point out that this division is predictive of splitting the African continent into two in the next tens of millions of years.

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The heavy rain that brought about great damage in Kenya caused a large area crack of several kilometers in length near the town of My Mahiu in the Great Lift Valley and it was possible to collapse major highways and to collapse the neighboring houses and farmers It is also damaging. Some geologists point out that the cause of the crack occurred was "caused by earthquake activity", but a large amount of water enters the underground volcanic ash layer, not the earthquake activityPiping phenomenonThere are also voices point out that it is caused by the occurrence, some of which raises discussion.


It is part of the Great Lift ValleyEast Africa Lift System (EARS)Is theGulf of AdenFrom the southMozambiqueIt has been growing for thousands of kilometers. EARS is actively active even now even in 2018, and eventually it breaks the continent, and it is thought that some of Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania will form a new continent.

According to scientists, thisA corner of AfricaIt is not the first time that a crack has occurred in an area called so. Previously crossed Ethiopia, Eritrea, DjiboutiAfar basinIt is confirmed that the crack was confirmed by the fact that these are confirmed to be the same process that the African Continent and the South American Continent which occurred about 138 million years ago were divided.

University of LondonAccording to Russia · Peres · Diaz, researcher of structural geology, "Suddenly, it may be that you feel a sense of crisis as" the division of the continent begins! "Due to the division of highways and catastrophic earthquakes In fact, the African continent will split while no one notices it, "he suggested that the division of the African continent is not proceeding at a phenomenal speed and is slowly progressing doing.