Hertali Volcano
Updated: Apr 20, 2024 03:08 GMT -
Fissure vent 900? m / 2,953 ft
Ethiopia, 9.78°N / 40.33°E
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
Ethiopia, 9.78°N / 40.33°E
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
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Hertali volcano eruptions: unknown, no recent eruptions
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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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