Close up of a giant crack can create a new ocean

A giant 35-mile crack created in 2005 in the Ethiopian desert could create a new ocean, according to the researchers.

Cracks in the Ethiopian desert will create a large ocean

But this point of view also caused great debates and this gap has not been thoroughly studied.

Cracks in Afar - Africa.

A study by an international team of scientists and an article in Geophysical Reseach Letter reported that the process of forming this fracture is similar to what happens on the ocean floor. Maybe this is a sign of the ocean in the future. Currently, there is a similar crack in the Red Sea.

By assembling earthquake data since 2005, researchers point out that the crack is expanding 35 miles in just one day. Accordingly, a volcano named Dabbahu is located in the north of the rift that erupted magma and flows along this rift.

Geographic map of the area where the phenomenon occurred.

That phenomenon caused the crack to expand in both directions according to the researchers' explanation in a recent statement.

'We know that the mountains at the bottom of the ocean are all created in the same scenario, but we still don't know that it happens quickly in just one time.'

That is the statement of Cindt Ebinger, expert on Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Rochester and co-author of the study.

Cracks develop very fast.

He also said that strong volcanic activity will contribute to faster and larger growth cracks . At that time, the people who live near may face real risks.

Africa and Arabs intersect in the remote desert of northern Ethiopia, the fissure expands every year, so it will spread to the Red Sea every 30 million years.

If you go to the Red Sea, the sea here will fall into cracks.

Here, the sea can enter and make a new ocean connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, part of the Arabian Sea lying between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Somalia in eastern Africa.

A new sea will be created?

Atalay Ayele, a professor at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, who led the investigation, is continuing to study this crack activity and his colleague Ghebrebrhan Ogubazghi - professor at Eritrea Institute of Technology.
Hopefully we will soon have more answers from them in the future on this issue.