{"id":277532,"date":"2019-05-30T11:12:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T15:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMigwFodHRwczovL3d3dy52b2xjYW5vZGlzY292ZXJ5LmNvbS9lcnRhX2FsZS9uZXdzLzgwOTA1L0VydGEtQWxlLXZvbGNhbm8tRGFuYWtpbC1FdGhpb3BpYS1uZXctZmlzc3VyZS1lcnVwdGlvbi1vbi1sb3dlci1FU0UtZmxhbmsuaHRtbNIBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:17:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:17:44","slug":"volcanodiscovery-reported-a-new-erta-ale-fissure-eruption-on-ethiopias-danakil-flank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277532","title":{"rendered":"VolcanoDiscovery reported a new Erta Ale fissure eruption on Ethiopia\u2019s Danakil flank"},"content":{"rendered":"

In late May 2019 VolcanoDiscovery reported that a satellite image showed a new hot spot on Erta Ale\u2019s lower east-southeast flank in Ethiopia\u2019s Danakil Depression, about 12 kilometers from the summit caldera.<\/p>\n\"VolcanoDiscovery\n

Erta Ale is one of Africa\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Kept as science and geology archive, the VolcanoDiscovery note dates one more fissure pulse on Ethiopia\u2019s famous lava lake volcano in mid-2019.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong> VolcanoDiscovery<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Erta Ale volcano (Danakil, Ethiopia): new fissure eruption on lower ESE flank  VolcanoDiscoveryA satellite image taken yesterday shows a new hot spot on the SES flank, at about 12 km distance from the summit caldera. Following the report of a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":353196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tourism-Ethiopia-702103-1714-54-07.jpg?fit=788%2C538&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1ack","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754982,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277532\/revisions\/754982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}