Hayli Gubbi volcano in the Afar Regional State of Ethiopia experienced its first historically documented volcanic eruption on 23 November 2025. The event produced a short-lived sustained eruption colu...

As early rifts initiate and evolve, different fault geometries and kinematics may form. In particular, it is debated at what stage low–angle normal faulting ...

As early rifts initiate and evolve, different fault geometries and kinematics may form. In particular, it is debated at what stage low–angle normal faulting ...

Dike intrusions can assist continental rifting and plate divergence. However, our understanding of the magma dynamics during diking and the architecture of t...

Abstract. The formation of continental rift systems is characterised by the interplay of magmatic and tectonic processes. Their evolution involves a wide range of timescales, from centennial scales of...

L’Università di Pisa protagonista di una doppia scoperta: nel triangolo dell’Afar (Etiopia), la rottura del continente e la risalita del mantello mostrano come il magma risalga ad impulsi ritmici cade...

"The plume is pulsing," said Earth Science professor Tom Gernon of the University of Southampton.

The mantle upwelling beneath the Afar rift may be influenced by tectonic processes in the overriding lithospheric plates that shape the distribution of both the compositional heterogeneities and abund...

Rapid and localised changes in plate thinning caused by rifting is the primary control on the spatio-temporal distribution of volcanism in the Afar rift, according to argon dating of volcanic rocks fr...

Rapid and localised changes in plate thinning caused by rifting is the primary control on the spatio-temporal distribution of volcanism in the Afar rift, according to argon dating of volcanic rocks fr...

InSAR study of deformation in the magmatically and geothermally active area of Dallol, Danakil, East African rift InSAR time series and velocity maps show three subsiding deformation signals on t...

A seismic sequence with several >M5 earthquakes occurred in the Fentale region of the Ethiopian rift during September–November 2024 InSAR models show ground motion dominated by rapid dike intrusi...

Professor Atalay Ayele is the Director of the Institute of Geophysics, Space Science and Astronomy at Addis Ababa University. Holding a postgraduate degree in