The United States Embassy in Ethiopia is asking tourists to reconsider travel to the active Erta Ale volcano where a German tourist was killed earlier this month. The volcano is a tourist ...

The lava flow from the Erta Ale volcano reached very significant levels, filling the ancient crater and spreading to the historic camping cabins for the first time in 20 years.

And tours to Erta Ale, the volcano I visited, have grown since a 2012 incident in which five European tourists were killed by rebels. (The death of a German tourist in 2017 was deemed a tragic ...

Erta Ale, Ethiopia. ... The first documented eruption of this volcano was in 1902, and it is the site of one of the largest eruptions of the 20th century, with around 6,000 casualties.

Erta Ale Volcano is a shield volcano in Ethiopia. That means it is basaltic lava with a low silica content, producing effusive, continuous eruptions much like those in Hawaii.

You can get a sense of the type of eruption a volcano tends to have based on the shape of the volcano itself. People watch the Erta'Ale volcano from the rim of its south crater wall, in the Afar ...

Scientists say the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii isn't done erupting. And it's not alone: 54 eruptions have been reported in 2025.

Hawaii's Kīlauea erupting 00:23. National Park officials urged caution after a toddler nearly fell off a 400-foot cliff while the family visited erupting volcano Kīlauea.After a three-month ...

The volcano had been emitting 100 to 200 cubic meters of lava every second at first, which the Norwegian Meteorological Agency said is “many times more than in previous eruptions on the ...

Volcanoes are Earth’s most powerful vents to its fiery inner core; ... The rift system produces distinctive geology, such as continuously erupting Erta Ale's unusual lava lake.