Discover the unique Erta Ale volcano, a shield volcano in the Afar region of Ethiopia, famous for its long-lived lava lake. The lava lake in the crater of Erta Ale. Selected resources of Erta'Ale: ...

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Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Located in the Danakil Depression (or Afar Depression) in the Afar Region of ...

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 ...

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 destination ...

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 tidal wave ...

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 forcing ...

Three tectonic plates are believed to be slowly moving away from each other, opening holes and exposing large swathes of magma. The most significant crack appeared near to the Erta Ale volcano – known ...

We formed a time series of interferograms using radar images acquired by the ENVISAT satellite, from five different tracks both in descending and ascending orbits. We also used data acquired by the ...

This is the incredible moment a tourist climbed the 2,011ft Erta Ale volcano in Afar Region, Ethiopia on April 29. The tourist gets a spectacular view of the volcano's interior when the magma receded ...