🔥 Volcano Awakens: Earth’s Roar 🌋

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A long-dormant volcano in northern Ethiopia, the Hayli Gubbi, erupted on Sunday morning, sending plumes of ash across the Red Sea towards Yemen and Oman. Located in the Afar region, approximately 800 kilometers (500 miles) northeast of Addis Ababa, the volcano erupted for several hours, covering the nearby village of Afdera in ash. According to the Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC) in France, the eruption generated thick smoke plumes rising up to 14 kilometers (nine miles) into the sky, resulting in ash clouds extending as far as Yemen, Oman, India, and northern Pakistan. Ahmed Abdela, a resident of the Afar region, described the event as “feeling like a sudden bomb had been thrown.” Many tourists who were traveling to the Danakil desert, a popular local attraction, were stranded in the ash-covered village of Afdera on Monday. Mohammed Seid, a local administrator, confirmed there were no casualties, but cautioned that the eruption could have significant economic implications for the local community of livestock herders. The Hayli Gubbi volcano’s last known eruption occurred 12,000 years ago, with previous eruptions documented in the Afar region of Ethiopia. Rising to an altitude of approximately 500 meters, the volcano is situated within the Rift Valley, a zone of intense geological activity resulting from the convergence of two tectonic plates. The Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program noted that Hayli Gubbi has not experienced any recorded eruptions during the current geological epoch – the Holocene, which began approximately 12,000 years ago.

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