stackyFACTSDeep within the brutally hot Danakil Depression in Ethiopia sits Erta Ale, an active basaltic shield volcano. Peer over its smoking rim and you will find a remarkably rare, continuously active churning lake of boiling red magma that has been constantly erupting and bubbling since at least 1906.
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