Ethiopia Volcano Update; New Gas Plume Rising from Fentale Volcano

A new plume of volcanic gas has been spotted rising from the Fentale volcano, suggesting the presence of very shallow magma. This plume seems to have a faint blue tint to it, suggesting the presence of sulfur dioxide. In other words, the Fentale volcano may be about to produce an imminent eruption, but further investigations are needed. Today's video will discuss this potential development, which is now being analyzed by experts in Ethiopia who are attempting to verify its existence on the ground. This could be a false alarm, but I have contacted the proper scientific authorities in Ethiopia regarding this new gas plume which has appeared every day on satellite imagery since January 15th. Thumbnail Photo Credit: This work "FentaleCrack9", is a derivative of a photo (resized, cropped, mirrored vertically (left became right and right became left), darker portions of image brightened, image color saturation increased, text overlay, GeologyHub made graphics (the image border & the GeologyHub logo)) from "Craquelure dans une coulée volcanique", by: Jean Rebiffé, jeanot, 2014, Posted on Flickr, Flickr account link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeanot, Photo link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeanot/17148068265, CC BY 2.0. "FentaleCrack9" is used & licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Youtube.com/GeologyHub NASA EOSDIS Worldview satellite imagery Copyright © 2012-2025 United States Government as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All Rights Reserved. Associated license for NASA EOSDIS Worldview: https://github.com/nasa-gibs/worldview/blob/main/LICENSE.md We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). We acknowledge the use of imagery from the NASA Worldview application (https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/), part of the NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: http://patreon.com/geologyhub) (YouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeGh5VML5XPr5jYnzh3J6g/join) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: http://prospectingarizona.etsy.com) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: http://geologyhub.etsy.com) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at geologyhubyt@gmail.com and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video's thumbnail image (and this list does not include every license used in this video and/or thumbnail image): CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Sources/Citations: [1] NASA Worldview, EOSDIS Worldview, (Satellite imagery: Terra / MODIS), at https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/ [2] Maestrelli, Daniele & Corti, Giacomo & Bonini, Marco & Montanari, Domenico & Sani, Federico. (2021). Caldera collapse and tectonics along the Main Ethiopian Rift: Reviewing possible relationships. Comptes Rendus Geosciences. 353. 1-19. 10.5802/crgeos.63. [3] U.S. Geological Survey [4] 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) [5] 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. [6] Source of Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) methodology and criteria: Newhall, C. G., and Self, S. (1982), The volcanic explosivity index (VEI) an estimate of explosive magnitude for historical volcanism, J. Geophys. Res., 87(C2), 1231–1238, doi:10.1029/JC087iC02p01231. Accessed / Read by Youtube.com/GeologyHub on Oct 5th, 2022. 0:00 Ethiopian Volcano 0:17 New Gas Emissions 0:36 Satellite Imagery 1:14 Situation & Possibilities 3:17 Volcanic Eruption Hazard?