looks like the rifting and shifting is happening faster than faster than it would be expected. They say it would take a million years for the ocean to form and the continent to split.

one million years is a staggering speed by geological standards though.

I am not sure how but i copy pasted this for u-

Whaler, who presented her preliminary results to the UK’s Royal Society last week, said, “Over geological time parts of southern Ethiopia and Somalia will split off and form a new island that moves out into the Indian Ocean.”

Dr. Wright commented on the Denakil discovery, “It’s very exciting because we’re witnessing the birth of a new ocean. In geological terms, a million years is the blink of an eye. We don’t precisely know what is going to happen, but we believe that it may turn parts of Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea into an island, before a much larger land mass—the horn of Africa—breaks off from the continent.”

I saw this years back on Nat Geo...hawa wamechelewa.