修补墙壁、地板或车道上的裂缝是一回事。但是你会怎么做呢?

The crack in the earth is more than 50 feet wide in some places and 50 feet deep, and it reportedly followed heavy rains and some ground vibration last month in the Eastern African country of Kenya.

在一些地方，地球上的裂缝超过50英尺宽，50英尺深，据报道，上个月在东非国家肯尼亚发生了强降雨和局部地区发生地面震动。

Scientists say this is evidence of plate tectonics, the theory that giant chunks of the earth’s crust and upper mantle are slowly shifting and breaking in some places. One area where two such plates are thought to meet is the East African Reef, and that’s near where there is going on.

科学家表示这是板块构造论的证据，该理论表示地球地壳和上地幔的巨大块在某些地方正在缓慢移动和断裂。两个这样的板块被认为交汇的一个区域是东非的暗礁，这是附近的一个区域。

So, does this mean that part of the African continent will eventually break off? Maybe. But it’s probably nothing for us to worry about.

那么，这是否意味着非洲大陆的部分最终将被分离?也许吧。但这可能没什么好担心的。

If this is part of a breakup between the East African Reef and the rest of the continent, scientists say it won’t be complete for tens of millions of years.

如果这是东非珊瑚礁和其他大陆之间的分裂的一部分，科学家们说它将不会在数千万年的时间内完成。

It’s one thing to patch up a crack in the wall, the floor, or the driveway. But what do you do about this?

The crack in the earth is more than 50 feet wide in some places and 50 feet deep, and it reportedly followed heavy rains and some ground vibration last month in the Eastern African country of Kenya.

Scientists say this is evidence of plate tectonics, the theory that giant chunks of the earth’s crust and upper mantle are slowly shifting and breaking in some places. One area where two such plates are thought to meet is the East African Reef, and that’s near where there is going on.

So, does this mean that part of the African continent will eventually break off? Maybe. But it’s probably nothing for us to worry about.

If this is part of a breakup between the East African Reef and the rest of the continent, scientists say it won’t be complete for tens of millions of years.