Satellites have detected large volumes of methane spewing from Mount Fentale’s crater following months of earthquakes that ...

Ethiopia’s Rift Valley has experienced at least 10 recent earthquakes, with the strongest reaching a 5.8 magnitude, displacing around 80,000 people across Afar, Oromia, and Amhara regions.

Homes thatched with stolen grass were burned. Small farms hug the slopes of the Great Rift Valley and cover much of the Ethiopian Highlands, fragmenting geladas’ native grasslands. Many ...

Earthquakes are common in Ethiopia due to its location along the Great Rift Valley, one of the world's most seismically active areas. Experts have said the tremors and eruptions are being caused ...

a professor of tectonics at the University of Firenze in Italy who specialises in the seismology of the Ethiopian section of the Great Rift Valley. “Since early New Year, the earthquake activity has ...

Annual precipitation is heaviest in the southwest, scant in the Great Rift Valley and the Ogaden, and negligible in the Denakil Depression. More about the >Geography of Ethiopia.