September 2005, Afar desert in the northeast of Ethiopia, where local shepherds felt a series of powerful underground shocks, and a few days later saw what terrified them: the earth literally dispersed, exposing a giant crevice, and each day the fracture became wider and longer, and in just ten days it reached 60 kilometres and the maximum width eight metres.
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September 2005, Afar desert in the northeast of Ethiopia, where local shepherds felt a series of powerful underground shocks, and a few days later saw what terrified them: the earth literally dispersed, exposing a giant crevice, and each day the fracture became wider and longer, and in just ten days it reached 60 kilometres and the maximum width eight metres.