Africa is Splitting into Two Continents and Most People Are Not Aware

Less than two decades ago, the ground began to split open in Africa, with fractures opening up across different countries, even splitting a man's house into two. Since then, it's been obvious that Africa is undergoing a continental rift. Such a rift occurs when a continent is set to break into two or more. When this happens, new continents, islands, and oceans will be formed, and our world will never be the same again.


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[darvoid]

You can relax a little because 4 minutes in we learn that it will take 5 million years to completely separate.

[drhirise]

Very interesting. Forty years ago I visited Kenya, and when I was there, had an opportunity to go to the rift. The future changes talked about in this video will take millions of years to come about. It gives us a perspective to realize that our lives are just a blip in the overall history of the earth.

[hawikau]

I was aware of this back in the early 1960s as a little kid looking at National Geographic magazines.

[scloftin]

Amazed at how alive our world is ... always moving, even when we don't realize it ... Just incredible. Thanks for the information. This is so cool.

[WilliamLees-wijo]

Mother nature at work as it always has

[sheilaadisa]

Future people will experience this and it will be long forgotten that we experienced it too.

[adriennegormley]

I learned about the great rift of Africa when I was in grade school (in thec1950s)l, and I'm in my 70s. It's been going on for a lot longer than that as well, but it was recognized when continental drift was first being studied. Alfred Wegener first wrote this up in the early 1900s. Major earthquakes at plate boundaries such as the 1964 Alaska quake have been studied to confirm this.

[pttp]

The Earth is a living being - an evolving breathing life

[pisachanation]

I've known about the African continent breaking apart since 2005. It wasn't as wide then or as long as it is now. I have wondered why there hasn't been much written about it since then. I wonder if the part of the continent that is breaking off, will be given a new name or names.

[edkent]

This station is ridiculous. The reason nobody cares that the African continent is splitting is because it's gonna take millions of years before it even gets close to splitting. I just love clicking on a take to find out I've still got several million years before I have to worry about it.

[tmtube]

I read a book about matching rocks between continents to see how they used to be connected. It may have been Geology of Maine.

[davidhua]

Story retold of how the Grand Canyon was created. It didn't takes millions of years to create the Grand Canyon but one swift moment of time at varying speeds of days - weeks - months or just decades.

[MerkabaKid]

If it`s meant to take hundreds of millions of years to split into two continents, then this is super fast!!!!

[martincicchino]

So you talk about the final/clean rift movement of sections taking 500 million years to occur, and then you talk about the probability of it helping the Ugandan economy. DOES ANYONE THINK UGANDA WILL BE AROUND IN 200 YEARS, MUCH LESS 500 MILLION YEARS. Dah!

[therange]

Sometimes our Earth acts quick and sometimes slow. Our planet thousands of years ago was nothing like now! We are seeing a fairly quick Earth change. In Africa.
Soon we will see an ISLAND that is really BIG popping up in the Atlantic Sea.

[CLM]

Interesting how a human body is Nothing compared to the size of this earth yet a body can destroy this entire planet overNight.

[cosmicprotocol]

I found the script and verbal delivery to be excellent. I appreciate how you collected so many facts.

[jacoblahr]

5:34 growing apart at about 1/4 of an inch every year oh boy so in about 24 years it will be around 6 inches. No wonder nobody knows or cares 😆

[quepasa]

Cool, that'll fill with water and some hi-speed water skiing for everybody!

[lukebogacik]

I believe the separation can occur within days if not hours. We have lived for 12, 000 years without massive global change, it’s not slow. ✌🏼