Overall Orange alert Volcanic eruption for Fentale
in Ethiopia

Event summary

ORANGE alert: The Fentale Volcanic eruption is unlikely to require external humanitarian assistance based on the exposed population and coping capacity.

GDACS ID VO 1000105
Name: Fentale (221190)
Glide number: VO-2025-000002-ETH
Lat/Lon: 9.35 , 40.13
Event Date: 04 Jan 2025 UTC
Exposed Population 30km: About 110000 people within 30km
Exposed Population 100km: About 4230000 people within 100km
Max Volc. Explosivity Index VEI: No confirmed eruptions
Population Exposure Index PEI: 5
Inserted at: 04 Jan 2025 07:21 UTC

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (32), (2), INGV (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2), JSR (1),