There hasn’t been a lot of coverage in the news, but Ethiopia’s Erta’Ale has started issuing new lava flows over the last week. I got a note from an Eruptions reader who is near the volcano ...

Erta Ale volcano in the Afar Region, Ethiopia is considered one of the world’s famous active volcano and molten lava lake. The volcano is active again and lava is flowing out of its crater ...

That’s how high the people in the video up top were when they lobbed a 30kg bag of organic waste into the lava lake at Ethiopia’s Erta Ale volcano, and it looks like it managed to penetrate ...

The latest in my Volcano Profiles series, this one on Erta Ale in Ethiopia. The summit crater at Erta Ale in 1994 Location: The Afar region of Ethiopia. Height: 613 m / 2,011 feet Tectonic setting ...

There hasn't been a lot of coverage in the news, but Ethiopia's Erta'Ale has started issuing new lava flows over the last week. I got a note from an Eruptions reader who is near the volcano that ...

Fresh-looking lava flows on the flanks of Erta Ale indicate that the lava lake will periodically overflow (as it may have in 2005), sending lava flows down the slopes of the volcano - this is a ...

I peered over the craggy rim of Erta Ale, Ethiopia’s most active volcano, at the lava lake below. Beneath a gassy haze, boiling, ruby-red, molten rock thickened and rose up, swelling like a ...

Lava flows from volcanoes like Erta Ale in Ethiopia are spilling across wide areas, creating new crust and marking the places where the Earth’s surface is being stretched and pulled apart.

I peered over the craggy rim of Erta Ale, Ethiopia’s most active volcano, at the lava lake below. Beneath a gassy haze, boiling, ruby-red, molten rock thickened and rose up, swelling like a ...