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A volcano successful Ethiopia's northeastern portion erupted for the archetypal clip successful astir 12,000 years, sending heavy plumes of fume up to 14km into the sky, the Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC) said.
The Hayli Gubbi volcano, located successful Ethiopia's Afar portion astir 800km northeast of Addis Ababa adjacent the Eritrean border, erupted connected Sunday (November 23, 2025) for respective hours.
The volcano, which rises astir 500m successful altitude, sits wrong the Rift Valley, a portion of aggravated geological enactment wherever 2 tectonic plates meet.
Ash clouds from the volcano drifted implicit Yemen, Oman, India, and bluish Pakistan, the VAAC said.
In videos shared connected societal media, which AFP could not instantly verify, a heavy file of achromatic fume tin beryllium seen rising.
The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program said Hayli Gubbi has had nary known eruptions during the Holocene, which began astir 12,000 years agone astatine the extremity of the past Ice Age.
Simon Carn, a volcanologist and prof astatine the Michigan Technological University, confirmed connected Bluesky that Hayli Gubbi "has nary grounds of Holocene eruptions".
Afar authorities person not yet responded to AFP inquiries astir imaginable casualties oregon the fig of displaced people.
