Ethiopian earthquakes and volcanic eruptions: earth scientist explains the link

By Amdemichael Tadesse, Fondation Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford

Ethiopia’s Afar and Oromia regions have been hit by several earthquakes and tremors since the beginning of 2025. The strongest, with a magnitude of 5.7, struck on 4 January. The US Geological Survey and the German Research Centre for Geosciences reported that its epicentre was 142km east of the capital, Addis Ababa, which is in the Oromia region. It came just a day after a quake with a magnitude of 5.5 hit the same area. Two more quakes were…

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