Get Djibouti on the dance floor.
Shake yer Djibouti.
If the crack does represent the birth of a new ocean (and it may not - it could all just settle down again), it will be about a million years before it is wet enough.
Which should give any local Noahs plenty of time to build their Arks.
Ark? You could just take a surplus New Orleans school bus. They don't use them.
A crevice in the Afar Triangle signals the birth of an ocean. In ten million years this ocean will split the African continent.
Dereje Ayalew/Universität Addis Abbaba ~~~~~ Scientists examine crevices in the Afar Triangle.
An aerial view of north-eastern Africa. The Afar Triangle is the sandy-colored triangle bordering on the sea.
NASA This photograph -- a direct view of the Afar Triangle -- was taken from the US space shuttle Columbia in January 1990.