Astonishing drone footage shows the extent of an enormous crack stretching seven miles which opened up overnight in south-western Kenya due to tectonic plate movement.

A huge crack in the ground surfaced last month in Kenya, showing the incipient stages of a continental break-up in a few million years.

A sudden tear in the East African Rift Valley is part of a process that will see the Horn of Africa split from the rest of the continent.

The 3,700-mile-long Great Rift Valley, which runs through Kenya, formed as a result of tectonic plates drifting apart, and it may eventually flood to separate Africa from a new continent.

Eliud Njoroge and his wife were inside their house in Kenya's Rift Valley when a crack appeared in the cement floor and started spreading.

Heavy rainfall exposed a 50-foot-deep crack in the ground in Kenya. Some scientists say the crack was caused by tectonic plates shifting, signaling the beginning of a continental breakup. But ...

A deep, wide gash has slashed across the Great Rift Valley floor in a geologically hot part of Kenya. Some wonder if East Africa will eventually separate from the continent.

A large crack, stretching several kilometres, made a sudden appearance recently in south-western Kenya. The tear, which continues to grow, caused part of the Nairobi-Narok highway to collapse.

Activity along the eastern branch of the rift valley, running along Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania, became evident when the large crack suddenly appeared in south-western Kenya. Why does rifting happen?