More than a dozen smaller burps have shaken the area in the years since. East Africa's Afar depression is one of the world's most geologically hyperactive regions. Fly over it in an airplane—or ...

Africa's Afar Depression serves as an unparalleled natural laboratory for studying continental rifting. This inhospitable region, where temperatures can soar to 130 degrees Fahrenheit, features a ...

The documentary follows the journey of a camel caravan to the salt plains of the Afar Depression. Traditionally the caravans moved from Afar Depression to other parts of Ethiopia and to the Red ...

Salt has been mined from the chain of salt lakes in the Danakil or Afar Depression for hundreds of years. An Egyptian traveller in the 6th century first made reference to it but it is probably ...

The Afar region, which straddles the border between ... tourists continue to visit the volcano - found in the heart of the Danakil Depression, which sits at 410ft (125m) below sea level.