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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...