Satellites have detected large volumes of methane spewing from Mount Fentale’s crater following months of earthquakes that have shaken the region ...

There’s something odd happening under an Ethiopian national park. Volcanic and seismic activity were on the rise under a volcano named Mount Fentale, but the gas that began spouting out of the ...

Gemechu Bedassa Teferi, a researcher who studies the volcanoes of the Main Ethiopian Rift, unpacks what's behind the recent events. Eighteen million years ago, the continents broke apart to form ...

A volcano in northeastern Ethiopia was showing signs of starting to erupt on Friday, prompting authorities to move residents to temporary shelters, a state-affiliated broadcaster and a government ...

A series of earthquakes in Ethiopia’s Afar region has sparked concerns over potential volcanic eruptions, displacing thousands. This geologically active zone sits within the Great Rift Valley, a fault ...

A tongue of lava spilling down the side of Mount Etna glows orange on the snow-covered volcano. This image, taken on 12 February by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites, shows a river ...

Possible transform faults which offset the Wonji fault belt can be traced into lines of weakness dating back to the Jurassic In the surrounding Somalian and Ethiopian plateaux. This makes it ...