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The crack, 20 feet wide in spots, opened in 2005 and some geologists believed then that it would spawn a new ocean. But that view was controversial, and the rift had not been well studied.

A new study involving an international team of scientists and reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds the processes creating the rift are nearly identical to what goes on at the bottom of oceans, further indication a sea is in the region’s future.

The same rift activity is slowly parting the Red Sea, too.

Using newly gathered seismic data from 2005, researchers reconstructed the event to show the rift tore open along its entire 35-mile length in just days. Dabbahu, a volcano at the northern end of the rift, erupted first, then magma pushed up through the middle of the rift area and began “unzipping” the rift in both directions, the researchers explained in a statement today.

“We know that seafloor ridges are created by a similar intrusion of magma into a rift, but we never knew that a huge length of the ridge could break open at once like this,” said Cindy Ebinger, professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester and co-author of the study.

The result shows that highly active volcanic boundaries along the edges of tectonic ocean plates may suddenly break apart in large sections, instead of in bits, as the leading theory held. And such sudden large-scale events on land pose a much more serious hazard to populations living near the rift than would several smaller events, Ebinger said.

“The whole point of this study is to learn whether what is happening in Ethiopia is like what is happening at the bottom of the ocean where it’s almost impossible for us to go,” says Ebinger. “We knew that if we could establish that, then Ethiopia would essentially be a unique and superb ocean-ridge laboratory for us. Because of the unprecedented cross-border collaboration behind this research, we now know that the answer is yes, it is analogous.”

The African and Arabian plates meet in the remote Afar desert of Northern Ethiopia and have been spreading apart in a rifting process – at a speed of less than 1 inch per year – for the past 30 million years. This rifting formed the 186-mile Afar depression and the Red Sea. The thinking is that the Red Sea will eventually pour into the new sea in a million years or so. The new ocean would connect to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, an arm of the Arabian Sea between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Somalia in eastern Africa.

Atalay Ayele, professor at the Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, led the investigation, gathering seismic data with help from neighboring Eritrea and Ghebrebrhan Ogubazghi, professor at the Eritrea Institute of Technology, and from Yemen with the help of Jamal Sholan of the National Yemen Seismological Observatory Center.

[edit] Career
Gonzalez started his acting career in New York where he landed a small role in
the made for television movie Thicker Than Blood (1998) as Sanchez. In 1999,
he made his feature movie debut as Ricky in the movie Mambo Cafe, which was
released in the year 2000. He followed that by participating in the film Prince of
Central Park (2000) before heading for Los Angeles, California.[2]

In Hollywood, he landed a small part as a gangbanger in the 2001 film Crocodile
Dundee in Los Angeles. He followed that with the roles of Rudy Bonilla in The Rookie,
starring Dennis Quaid and as the sex-crazed Primo in the 2003 movie Biker Boyz. In
2005, he played the role of Timo Cruz in the movie Coach Carter. Gonzalez also
appeared in Twista’s video “Hope”, which is the lead single off the Coach Carter
movie soundtrack. He played the male lead in Mashonda’s “Back of Tha Club” video;
and has also starred in the video to the Obie Trice song “Snitch”, where he plays a
member of a group who successfully pull off a bank robbery, and then snitches on
them. Gonzalez was also in Red Cafe’s video for “All Night Long” which was also in
the Coach Carter movie soundtrack.

Among the other movies in which Gonzalez has participated in are the 2003
comedy Old School (alongside Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell) as
“Spanish”, Laurel Canyon (2003) as Wyett, Subway Cafe (2004) as Vincent Young,
War of the Worlds (2005) as Vincent, Roll Bounce (2005) as Naps, Pulse (2006) as
Stone, First Snow (2006) as Andy Lopez,[3] and Illegal Tender (2007) as Wilson
DeLeon Jr.[3]

His TV guest appearances have been in Law & Order: Special Victims
Unit (2000), Touched by an Angel (2001) as Ramone, ER (2001) as Jorge Escalona,
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002) as Tomas, The Shield (2002) and CSI: Miami (2006).
Most recently, he co-starred in the CW television series Reaper as Ben Gonzalez.
Gonzalez had a blog about the 2008 MLB Post Season and was nicknamed the
“October Gonzo”.[4]