{"id":59208,"date":"2023-04-26T23:45:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=59208"},"modified":"2023-04-26T23:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T23:45:12","slug":"africas-tectonic-shift-how-the-continent-is-splitting-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=59208","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s tectonic shift: how the continent is splitting apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa is slowly splitting in two, geologists have confirmed, a process that will eventually tear entire nations away from the continent and lead to the formation of a new ocean.<br \/>\nAccording to a peer-reviewed study published in the Geophysical Research Letters journal, the gradual splitting of the continent is connected to the 35-mile-long crack that appeared in the desert of Ethiopia after an earthquake in 2005&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.co.uk\/news\/science-health\/960092\/africas-tectonic-shift-how-the-continent-is-splitting-apart\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa is slowly splitting in two, geologists have confirmed, a process that will eventually tear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/59208-africas-tectonic-shift-how-the-continent-is-splitting-apart.jpg",160,90,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/59208-africas-tectonic-shift-how-the-continent-is-splitting-apart-150x90.jpg",150,90,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/59208-africas-tectonic-shift-how-the-continent-is-splitting-apart.jpg",160,90,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/59208-africas-tectonic-shift-how-the-continent-is-splitting-apart.jpg",160,90,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/59208-africas-tectonic-shift-how-the-continent-is-splitting-apart.jpg",160,90,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/59208-africas-tectonic-shift-how-the-continent-is-splitting-apart.jpg",160,90,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/59208-africas-tectonic-shift-how-the-continent-is-splitting-apart.jpg",160,90,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/59208-africas-tectonic-shift-how-the-continent-is-splitting-apart.jpg",160,90,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/59208-africas-tectonic-shift-how-the-continent-is-splitting-apart.jpg",160,90,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/59208-africas-tectonic-shift-how-the-continent-is-splitting-apart.jpg",160,90,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}