On December 25, 2024, in Afar, Ethiopia, @jebena_tours_ethiopia shared a video of Erta Ale volcano's mesmerizing display of ...

MONTRÉAL, QUEBEC / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / GHGSAT, the world leader in emissions monitoring, has detected a ...

On December 25, 2024, in Afar, Ethiopia, @jabena_tours_ethiopia shared a video of a man lighting a cigarette on molten lava from the Erta Ale volcano. In the video, the man approaches the molten lava ...

Seismic upheaval in the Awash Fentale area has uprooted thousands from their homes. It has also raised questions about the ...

The Conversation Africa asked volcano researcher Amdemichael Tadesse to explain what’s happening below the earth’s surface. How common is it for quakes in Ethiopia to trigger volcanic eruptions?

At 4,000 miles long and 30–40 miles wide, the East African Rift (EAR) system is one of the geologic wonders of the world.

Magma (molten rock) is intruding into the subsurface beneath two volcanoes, Fentale and Dofen, which are geographically close to each other. Ethiopia has around 50 active volcanoes. Most are in ...

The Geological Society of London says of Africa’s severing: ‘Today the EAR remains above sea level however in the future, as extension continues along the rift, the rift valley will sink lower and ...

The explosions in December led to the exodus of the estimated 10,000 community members living in Seganto. Today, Seganto remains empty. Hassan Kamil Konte, a community elder, fled and now lives in a ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck Ethiopia, east of the capital Addis Ababa, early on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.