In late May 2019 VolcanoDiscovery reported that a satellite image showed a new hot spot on Erta Ale’s lower east-southeast flank in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, about 12 kilometers from the summit caldera.
Erta Ale is one of Africa’s most active volcanoes and has long drawn scientists and adventure travelers to the Afar lava fields, so flank fissure news still matters for Horn readers who follow geology, tourism risk, and the wider Danakil landscape.
Kept as science and geology archive, the VolcanoDiscovery note dates one more fissure pulse on Ethiopia’s famous lava lake volcano in mid-2019.
Sources: VolcanoDiscovery