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Hertali volcano

Updated: Jul 5, 2022 09:49 GMT - Refresh

Fissure vent 900? m / 2,953 ft
Ethiopia, 9.78°N / 40.33°E
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)

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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Hertali volcano eruptions: unknown, no recent eruptions
Lastest nearby earthquakes: No recent earthquakes

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Background

Hertali is a basaltic fissure vent that fed lava flows at the south end of the Awash plain, about 50 km NNE of Dofen volcano. Hertali was considered by Mohr and Wood (1976) to have been active during the late Pleistocene to Holocene on the basis of its youthful-looking morphology.
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