On a side note Ethopia started construction last week i believe on the largest dam ever built in Africa. Its going up on the Nile river, going to make Ethopia a big electricity supporter. I never new Ethopia was such a earthquake prone region, makes you wonder about the soundess of building a dam there.

Yikes

Magnitude 5.7
Date-Time

* Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 21:03:23 UTC
* Monday, June 13, 2011 at 12:03:23 AM at epicenter

Location 13.530°N, 41.625°E
Depth 9.9 km (6.2 miles)
Region ERITREA - ETHIOPIA REGION
Distances

* 134 km (83 miles) WNW (296°) from Assab, Eritrea
* 205 km (127 miles) SW (225°) from Al Hudaydah, Yemen
* 233 km (145 miles) E (89°) from Mekele, Ethiopia
* 271 km (168 miles) NW (323°) from DJIBOUTI, Djibouti

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 17.1 km (10.6 miles); depth +/- 2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Parameters NST=113, Nph=114, Dmin=320.6 km, Rmss=0.88 sec, Gp= 72°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6
Source

* U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center:
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

Event ID usc00045xc

Something is really cooking there

The area of the quakes appears to be volcanic in origin.

There are craters and lava flows everywhere in that region

Africa is spreading apart.
See Ethiopian Rift Valley, Great Rift Valley, etc.

Originally posted by abecedarian
Africa is spreading apart.
See Ethiopian Rift Valley, Great Rift Valley, etc.

If thats happening now i can just imagine the quakes to come

Originally posted by Frank Dinkle
The area of the quakes appears to be volcanic in origin.

There are craters and lava flows everywhere in that region

And there's the answer...maybe?

Good post!

mmm...eruptions soon ?

Originally posted by LaTouffe
mmm...eruptions soon ?

Not likely... possible though.

How many volcanoes are along the Atlantic rift?

Thats pretty scary aye. Might me something bigger to come for this area of the world. Just here in Christchurch NZ we are experiencing large volcanic ash clouds from Chile. Sky looks great at dusk. That must of been some eruption in Chile.