Studies of seismicity, age of faulting, age of volcanoes and short and long wavelength gravity anomalies all indicate that the evolution of the East African rift system is related to attenuation ...

Some of the world's most spectacular but least-known volcanoes lie along the East African Rift, a wide crack in the Earth's crust that runs for more than 1,200 miles from Malawi through Tanzania ...

Kīlauea volcano is the most active volcano on Hawaii's Big Island. There has been an ongoing eruption to the east of the summit in the East Rift Zone since 1983, mainly centred around the Pu'u ...

The type of lava erupted by Nyiragongo and many volcanoes in the East Rift zone of Africa, called alkaline lava, has an extremely low viscosity, making it almost as fluid as water. Alkaline lava ...

The Associated Press In this aerial photo released by the U.S. Geological Survey, the Mauna Loa volcano is seen erupting from vents on the Northeast Rift Zone on ... Hilo to the east, with about ...