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Erta Ale volcan
Shield volcano 613 m / 2,011 ft
Danakil depression, Ethiopia, 13.6°N / 40.66°E
Condition actuelle: en éruption (4 sur 5)
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Eruptions du volcan Erta Ale:
1873(?), 1903(?), 1904(?), 1906, 1940, 1960, 1967-2004, 2005-ongoing
Style éruptif tipique:
Effusive. Persistant lava lake.

Voyages au volcan Erta Ale :
Highlights of Ethiopia (15 days expedition and trekking to Erta Ale volcano, Dallol, Lalibela and Semien mountains (Ethiopia))
Désert, sels et volcans (Expédition au volcan Erta Ale et les champs hydrothermaux de Dallol (désert de Danakil, Éthiopie))

Erta Ale (Ethiopia) volcano news:

Erta Ale volcano (Ethiopia): summit lava lake is refilling

ven., 19 juin 2020, 09:01
09:01 AM | AUTEUR : T
Satellite image of Erta Ale volcano showing the heat signal from its summit lava lake
Satellite image of Erta Ale volcano showing the heat signal from its summit lava lake
There are signs that the volcano's famous lava lake is increasing again. The lake is contained in the main (southern) pit crater inside the summit caldera of the vast shield volcano, located in one of the most remote places of the Danakil depression in the Afar triangle.
Recent satellite imagery shows a significant hot spot from the crater, due to the presence of lava accumulating there as the new lava lake.
There are no signs of lava effusing from the fissure vents on the volcano's southern and SE slopes active during 2017-19, which confirms that this lateral eruption has ended for good. This in turn would favor the reformation of the summit lava lake as magma rising inside no longer is being drained on the flank, but uses the central conduit to form a lake in the summit area.

Visiting the volcano
Hopefully, current travel restrictions still in place will soon be lifted, so it will again be possible to visit the country and bring small groups to the volcano in the frame of our volcano expeditions to Ethiopia.

Actualités précédentes

lun., 19 août 2019, 11:07
Erta Ale volcano (Danakil, Ethiopia) activity update: new surface lava flows 3-4 km SE from summit caldera
Satellite image of Erta Ale from 17 Aug 2019 showing the areas of new lava flows at the surface (image: Sentinal-hub)
A series of relatively large lava surface flows is visible on recent satellite images, in locations between 3-4 km SE from the summit caldera. ... lire toutes
mar., 9 juil. 2019, 07:39
Erta Ale volcano (Danakil, Ethiopia) activity update: continuing flank eruption
Satellite image of Erta Ale from yesterday with hot spots on the SE flank and at the summit (image: Sentinel Hub)
No significant changes have occurred at the volcano during the past weeks. The flank eruption (which had started in early 2017) is still going on, gradually enlarging the vast new lava flow field on the southern and eastern flanks. ... lire toutes
jeu., 30 mai 2019, 15:09
Erta Ale volcano (Danakil, Ethiopia): new fissure eruption on lower ESE flank
Satellite image of Erta Ale from yesterday shows a new hot spot (possible area with new lava flows) on the ESE flank (image: Sentinal-hub)
A 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 possible eruption from the Afdera region, this is likely the area in question and thus becomes a report of Erta Ale volcano instead. ... lire toutes
ven., 12 oct. 2018, 08:28
Erta Ale (Ethiopia): summit lava lake revives as activity at flank eruption site slows down
Daytime view of the active lava lake is often obscured by strong degassing (image: Enku Mulugetu, September 2018)
Our Ethiopian expedition organiser Enku made a reconnaissance trip to Erta Ale in September and reported the current status of this continuously changing active volcano. It appears that over summer the lava lake in the summit crater slowly rose and remains very active, but that the fissure eruption at the volcano's south flank (which started during the dramatic change of volcanic activity mid January 2017) slowed down. ... lire toutes
mer., 25 juil. 2018, 15:54
Erta Ale (Ethiopia) : activity continues both at the summit and the 2017 flank eruption site
The lava lake inside the Southern Crater of Erta Ale’s summit caldera, shown here on 26 June 2018, is slowly rising and growing (image: Rebecca Wu)
Danakil expedition organiser Enku reports after our recent tour to this Ethiopian shield volcano that activity continues both at Erta Ale's summit caldera and the fissure eruption site on its SE flank with sustained lava lakes. ... lire toutes
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