Most are in the Ethiopian Rift, the northern segment of the East African Rift System. An active volcano has magma stored deep within its crust that could potentially erupt in the future.

This 3D map shows the main Ethiopian rift, which contains a chain of volcanoes, faults and lakes (in black). The coloured surface is an "interferogram" derived from Envisat radar data from January ...

Caption Looking out into the Main Ethiopian Rift, taken at Boset Volcano in Ethiopia Credit Prof Thomas Gernon, University of Southampton Usage Restrictions None License Original content ...

They compared the data to that of two other rift volcanoes. Their findings, published in Nature Communications, showed a large pulse in explosive volcanism for 15,000 years, beginning 320,000 ...

Oromia in Ethiopia has several lakes within the Ethiopian Rift Valley, including Lake Wonchi which was chosen as the best tourist village of 2021 by the World Tourism Organization. The region is ...

A 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck across the Ethiopian Rift Valley, west of Lake Awash, Mount Fentale area, and in the town of Metehara, sending some residents running for shelter. The tremor ...

Access to social media platforms has been restricted in Ethiopia, Internet watchdog NetBlocks said, following violent protests sparked by a rift within the country's Orthodox Church.

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of ...