A series of earthquakes with their epicenter in the Awash Fentale area have displaced close to 10,000 residents in the North Shewa Zone of the Amhara region, which borders the Afar region.

"Some residents in Awash and Dulecha districts are reluctant to evacuate, particularly pastoralist communities concerned about their livestock and property," reads the note from the United Nations ...

A devastating series of earthquakes in the Awash Fentale and Dulecha woredas of the Afar region has caused significant damage to a sugar estate employing over ...

Latest data from the US Geological Survey (USGS) showed that at least ten earthquakes have occurred in central Ethiopia over the past two days, with the majority impacting areas around Awash Fentale ...

Alfred Wegener published his proposal that continents had moved. He presented various lines of evidence, of which the best remembered is the fact that the opposite shores of the Atlantic ...

The earthquakes have also sparked fears of volcanic eruptions because they are happening near two active volcanoes, Fentale and Dofen. The Conversation Africa asked volcano researcher Amdemichael ...

Magma (molten rock) is intruding into the subsurface beneath two volcanoes, Fentale and Dofen, which are geographically close to each other. Ethiopia has around 50 active volcanoes. Most are in ...