Ethiopia Volcano Update; The Caldera Just Sunk by 26 Feet, Heat Signature Detected

A nearly mile wide portion of a volcano presumably just sunk by 26 feet or 8 meters! This all occurred due to a strange strong magnitude 6.0 volcanic earthquake at Ethiopia's Fentale volcano. While sharing many similarities with a caldera collapse event, the subsidence is not yet truly a caldera collapse. Today's video will discuss Ethiopia's largest earthquake since 1989, the ongoing magmatic intrusion between the Fentale & Dofen volcanoes, and what might happen next through the analysis of a geologist.

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[2] U.S. Geological Survey
[3] Shuler, A., G. Ekström, and M. Nettles (2013), Physical mechanisms for vertical-CLVD earthquakes at active volcanoes, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 118, 1569–1586, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50131.
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[5] Sentinel-5P TROPOMI Satellite
[6] GHGSAT
[7] Michael L. Rampey, Clive Oppenheimer, David M. Pyle, Gezahegn Yirgu, Caldera-forming eruptions of the Quaternary Kone Volcanic Complex, Ethiopia, Journal of African Earth Sciences, Volume 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-66, ISSN 1464-343X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2010.01.008. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X1000018X)
[8 Keir, Derek & La Rosa, Alessandro & Pagli, Carolina & Wang, Hua & Ayele, Atalay & Lewi, Elias & Monterroso, Fernando & Raggiunti, Martina. (2024). The 2024 Fentale Diking Episode in a Slow Extending Continental Rift. 10.22541/au.172979388.80164210/v1. CC BY 4.0.
Note: This source was used to cite the Sep-Oct 2024 magma dike volume, width, depth, length, composition, and behavior of that intrusion.

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