🔥 Strong mag. 5.5 earthquake – Āfar, 64 km east of Ādīgrat, Tigray, Ethiopia, on Monday, Dec 26, 2022 at 3:21 pm (GMT +3)
The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported a magnitude 5.1 quake in Ethiopia near Ādīgrat, Tigray, only 12 minutes ago. The earthquake hit early afternoon on Monday, December 26th, 2022, at 3:21 pm local time at a shallow depth of 10 km. The exact magnitude, epicenter, and depth of the quake might be revised within the next few hours or minutes as seismologists review data and refine their calculations, or as other agencies issue their report.
Our monitoring service identified a second report from the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake which listed the quake at magnitude 5.1 as well. A third agency, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), reported the same quake at magnitude 5.3.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Ādīgrat (pop. 65,000) located 62 km from the epicenter, Adi Keyh (pop. 13,100) 73 km away, and Mek’ele (pop. 215,500) 127 km away.
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💭 Satellites at the beginning of this year identified new fissures near one of the world’s most active volcanoes, Erta Ale, in Ethiopia, also known as the “steaming mountain” and the “gate of hell.”
🔥The Third World War began on October 24 / 2013 (Ethiopian calendar – on the Days of Saints George and Abune Teklahaymanot) on November 4, 2020, when the Edomites and Ishmaelites opened their Jihad against Axum Zion (on the Ark of the Covenant). The US presidential election took place on this very day.
And just today, it was reported that Ethiopian government and Tigray forces agreed to ceasefire after first face-to-face talks – and this over a million massacred ancient Christians later – and nobody is talking about JUSTICE.
Our expedition leader and guide from VolcanoDiscovery Ethiopia, Enku Mulugeta, visited the volcano in mid-October to make new observations. A couple of significant changes in the southern pit crater have been observed since the last update.
Vigorous lava spattering continues to eject hot, fresh and plastic lava clots that in turn have piled into 5-7 meters high deposits (so-called hornitos) at the northern and southern walls of the crater due to short travel distance from and/or above the vent. Hornito is considered to be rare hawaiian-type phenomena that is formed when part of lava, flowing within lava tube, escapes through a hole out of lava tube due to strong degassing in the form of spattering.
Furthermore, both hornitos are formed on the thin solidified crust of the pit crater, among which a gap resembling a cave-like lava tube appears to be prone to collapse into a large lava lake as it used to be before. Slabs of dark, solidified crust continue to shift on the lava lake surface accompanied by typical bright orange lava glow between them.
Turkmenistan’s president has ordered the extinguishing of the country’s “Gateway to Hell”, a fire that has been burning for decades in a huge desert gas crater.
Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov wants it put out for environmental and health reasons, as well as part of efforts to increase gas exports.
Mystery surrounds the Darvaza crater’s creation in the Karakum Desert.
Many believe it formed when a Soviet drilling operation went wrong in 1971.
But Canadian explorer George Kourounis examined the crater’s depths in 2013 and discovered that no-one actually knows how it started.
According to local Turkmen geologists, the huge crater formed in the 1960s but was only lit in the 1980s.
The crater is one of Turkmenistan’s most popular tourist attractions.
“We are losing valuable natural resources for which we could get significant profits and use them for improving the well-being of our people,” the president said in televised remarks.
He instructed officials to “find a solution to extinguish the fire”.
There have been numerous attempts to end the fire, including in 2010 when Mr Berdymukhamedov also ordered experts to find a way to put out the flames.
In 2018, the president officially renamed it the Shining of Karakum.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on January 8, 2022
🔥 The Erta Ale volcano which is one of the most amazing natural sites on the planet and the world’s oldest active lava lake remains active.
The recent field observation of expedition leader and guide from Volcano Discovery Ethiopia, Enku Mulugaeta, confirmed that the volcano’s south crater went through little morphological changes before the current eruption started.
A part of NE crater wall (1-2 m) collapsed two times – the first time in the evening between 31 December 2021 and 1 January and the second time in the morning of 1 January, 2022.
The south crater, located in the central part of the caldera, is occupied by the lava lake that has undergone some changes. The intense activity of the lake was accompanied by rapid movements of the lava from the north to the south and small lava fountains, about 1 meter tall.
The terraces on the northern side of the crater appear to have been swamped by the lava after which the lava lake level decreased.
the lava lake is occupying the summit crater now and is back after 5 years of inactivity! The estimated depth of the lake is about 35 meters from the rim with a crater diameter of 200 meters. On 31 December, two big collapses have been observed, meaning that the lake got wider.
As to what exactly caused the eruption and whether it fed new flows from its main outlet channel or whether it was an independent batch of lava that burst out from a flank fissure, is not clear yet.
Erta Ale is the site of the largest of only five known lava lakes in the world. Temperatures inside the cauldron are said to reach around 1,100 degrees Celsius (2,000 °F). The volcano is known locally as “Smoking Mountain” and “Gateway To Hell.”
Erta Ale is said to be one of the very few Actual ‘gateways to hell’ right here on earth.
Hell—a concept we have heard about in almost every culture’s mythology and popularized by the Greeks. A ‘Door to Hell’ is a passage that leads into the underworld, where the creatures of the dead prevail, under the supervision of the God of Hell. Of course, depending on the culture, this so-called God of Hell is known by various names—from Hades to Lucifer.
🔥 Erta Ale was featured in the 2010 movie Clash of The Titans as an entrance to Hell.
🔥 Erta Ale Volcano (Danakil Depression, Ethiopia): Lava Lake Returned to Crater
💭 Visual observations from Seifegebreil Shifferaw confirm that the lava lake is occupying the summit crater now and is back after 5 years of inactivity!
The estimated depth of the lake is about 35 meters from the rim with a crater diameter of 200 meters.
On 31 December, two big collapses have been observed, meaning that the lake got wider.
As to what exactly caused the eruption and whether it fed new flows from its main outlet channel or whether it was an independent batch of lava that burst out from a flank fissure, is not clear yet.
😈 Leaked audio from recent closed meeting in which war criminal vampire-in-Chief Abiy Ahmed Ali asserts he will remain in power for 10 years using whatever means at his disposal. He told his cabinet members to prepare for more bloodshed as it is necessary to keep them all in power.
🔥 A Billion Wicked Thoughts as it’s meant to be heard. 😈 Abiy Ahmed Ali & Isaias Afewerki 😈 are the most evil monsters of this planet.
This monster is a vicious sociopath and will do anything he can to stay in power. His bloodlust – his desire for violence and bloodshed in vampire-like behavior is similar to vampire myths. He is a menace not only to Ethiopia, but to Africa and the entire world – he must be standing in the docks at The Hague, or thrown into the bottomless pit of The Erta Ale Lava Lake. The sooner the better!
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on May 25, 2021
The airbase also gives the controller access for operations into the Red Sea
A mysterious airbase is being built on a volcanic island—the Mayun Island off Yemen. No country has claimed the structure being built in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
The strait is one of the world’s crucial maritime chokepoints for both energy shipments and commercial cargo.is linked to the United Arab Emirates, AP reports.
Officials in Yemen’s government say that the UAE is behind the current attempt too. In 2019, UAE had announced that it was withdrawing its troops from a Saudi-led military campaign battling Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
Whoever controls an airbase on the Mayun island is automatically elevated to a position of power, as it allows them to launch airstrikes into conflict-ridden Yemen. The airbase also gives the controller access for operations into the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and nearby East Africa.
Dump trucks and graders building a 6,070-foot runway on the island can be seen on satellite images from Planet Labs Inc as of April 11.
Military officials have said that the recent tension between Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and the UAE was partly due to UAE demanding that the Yemeni government sign a 20-year lease for Mayun island.
The strategic location of the island also known as Perim island has been recognised internationally. The island was under British control until 1967 when they departed from Yemen.
Ass per a 1981 CIA analysis, the Soviet Union, allied with South Yemen’s Marxist government, upgraded Mayun’s naval facilities but used them intermittently.
Satellites at the beginning of this year identified new fissures near one of the world’s most active volcanoes, Erta Ale, in Ethiopia, also known as the “steaming mountain” and the “gate of hell.”
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