East African Rift
Few people understand the implications of the earthquake of September 14, 2005. Satellite images show that the Arabian tectonic plate and the African plate are moving away from each other, stretching the Earth's crust and widening the southern end of the Red Sea. What's known as the East Aftrican Rift in the remote and desolate Boina, Ethiopia split a crack 37 miles long. Is it a reaction to the everen days before when the most violent week ever in solar flares sent ten X-rated belches our way?
Is Africa cracking into two pieces? Many scientists believe so.
It's not going to happen over night but many feel tht we're witnessing a new ocean being formed from the division of Africa. Dereje Ayalew, from the University of Addis Ababa has said, "This is unprecedented in scientific history because we usually see the split after it has happened. But here we are watching the phenomenon."
The East African Rift Valley, like the Dead Sea Rift Valley or California's Imperial Valley, has a long daisy-chain of increasingly rancid lakes. The deeper the rift valley, the saltier and more toxic the lake. The Dead Sea is famously salty. So is the equally aptly named Salton Sea in California.
Dereje said that the split is the beginning of a long process, which will eventually lead to Ethiopia's eastern part tearing off from the rest of Africa, with a sea forming in the gap. The Afar desert is being torn off the continent by about 0.8 inches (20 millimeters) each year. "The crust under Afar is becoming like the crust found in the Red Sea," said Dereje, head of earth science at Addis Ababa University. "Once the crust is formed you will have water because it is a low area and the water will migrate from the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. It becomes a basin."
And how did all of this begin? Would you believe excessive solar flares? Many think that is exactly what's happened. And if so, as a result of the '05 solar minimum phase, what's in store for us in '12 during the solar maximum phase? A good question, don'tcha think?
Food for thought?
Related Tags: earthquake, solar flares, red sea, x-rated, east african rift, dead sea rift, african plate, solar maximum
As a spiritual-futurist, I interpret current events in light of possible macro-universal forces at play leading up to 2012, but not limited to it.
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