Earthquakes and volcanic activity are both common in Ethiopia. The country is located in a geologically active region, the East African Rift System. But it’s rare for earthquakes to directly trigger ...

A long-inactive volcano in northern Ethiopia unexpectedly erupted on Sunday, sending up plumes of volcanic ash and dust, which have since spread across continents and disrupted flights in India and ...

Somalia’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday ordered a senior Ethiopian diplomat to leave the country within 72 hours after alleging interference in internal affairs. The Foreign Ministry released a ...

Active lava flows spilling out of the Erta Ale volcano in Afar, Ethiopia. The Afar Rift zone is one of the few examples on Earth where three tectonic rifts converge. Experts previously theorized this ...

The hot layer between the Earth’s crust and mantle is not static in the Afar region of Ethiopia but is surging rhythmically upwards. A study in Nature Geoscience 1 by researchers from 10 institutions, ...

A volcano in Ethiopia that last erupted when human civilization was still in its infancy has roared back to life, sending ash into the sky and lava across a sparsely populated landscape. After roughly ...