Ethiopia's Rift Valley a volcanic, tectonic zone

In the last few weeks, at least 10 earthquakes have been recorded in Ethiopia’s Rift Valley, the strongest measuring 5.8 magnitude, affecting areas including the capital, Addis Ababa. VOA has reported the evacuation of approximately 80,000 residents from the country’s Afar, Oromia and Amhara regions. Cynthia Ebinger is an American geoscientist at Tulane University known for her research on continental rifts and the movement of continental plates ...her research interests include seismology, tectonics, crustal dynamics and imaging for archaeology and geosciences. In explaining the root cause of the earthquakes to VOA’s Yeheyes Wuhib she says Rift Valley is one of the world’s most seismically active regions.