The University of Leeds2024-12-072024-12-07https://dspace.academy.edu.ly/handle/123456789/563northern main Ethiopian rift (NMER), the cumulative distributions for length and displacement populations fit to both exponential and log-normal functions, which is a function of limited crustal layers thickness. The observed decrease of average fault lengths and increasing average fault throws and D/L ratio in the NMER as opposed to the CMER may have occurred after reaching the maximum fault length at an earlier stage of development, which would again be in line with the coherent fault model.Abstract The aim of the current research is to provide new insights into the evolution of normal faults and their implications on continental rift evolution in order to inform our understanding of the north to south rift propagation of the east African rift system (EARS). Therefore, three different rift segments representing different stages of continental rifting have been selected along the EARSStructural evolution of continental rifting, quantitative analysis of fault populations: insights from the central Kenya rift, central and north main Ethiopian rift