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Gufa

Volcano number: 221124
Region: Africa and Red Sea
Country: Eritrea-Djibouti
Geodetic measurements? Yes
Deformation observation? No
Measurement method(s): InSAR
Duration of observation: 2005-2010
Inferred cause of deformation: []
Characteristics of deformation:

Gufa is a collection of basaltic scoria cones alines E-W. Pagli, et al. (2014), for the purposes of investigating regional velocity fields, has looked at Envisat InSAR data covering this volcano. They report no deformation at this rhyolitic stratovolcano.

References: 'Pagli, C. et al., 2014. Current plate boundary deformation of the Afar rift from a 3-D velocity field inversion of InSAR and GPS. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119(11), pp.8562-8575.'
Location: 42.53, 12.55