Places Where The Earth Is Breaking In Half

Subscribe and chill with me while I explain the universe one strange fact at a time. 00:00 The Afar Triangle Where Three Tectonic Plates Are Slowly Pulling Africa Apart 02:17 Iceland Where the Atlantic Ocean Is Slowly Growing Beneath the Surface 04:15 The Gulf of California, Where Baja California Is Drifting Away From Mexico 06:06 Lake Baikal Where Siberia Is Being Stretched Around the Deepest Lake on Earth 08:03 The Basin and Range Where the Western United States Is Being Pulled Into Hundreds of Faulted Valleys 09:53 The Aegean Sea Where the Earth's Crust Is Stretching Beneath Greece and Turkey 11:41 The Dead Sea Where a Massive Fault Is Slowly Shifting the Middle East 13:30 The Salton Sea Where California Sits Above a Geologically Active Rift 15:18 The Pannonian Basin Where Central Europe Was Slowly Pulled and Thinned Apart 17:14 The North Anatolian Fault Where Turkey Is Slowly Being Shifted Along a Giant Crack