A volcano in Ethiopia erupted for the primary time in practically 12,000 years, sending clouds of thick smoke 14 kilometres into the sky and over the Crimson Sea.
Satellite tv for pc imagery captured by NASA exhibits the Afar area of Ethiopia, the place the Hayli Gubbi volcano is positioned, with a brownish plume of smoke hanging over the world after it erupted over a number of hours on Sunday.
The native authorities shared photographs and movies of a towering ash plume rising from the volcano.
On this photograph launched by the Afar Authorities Communication Bureau, ash billows from an eruption of the long-dormant Hayli Gubbi Volcano in Ethiopia’s Afar area on Nov. 23, 2025.
Afar Authorities Communication Bureau by way of AP
Based on the Guardian, Mohammed Seid, a neighborhood official, mentioned nobody was injured however warned that the eruption might have destructive financial implications for farming communities, including that there isn’t any earlier report of the volcano erupting.
“Whereas no human lives and livestock have been misplaced to this point, many villages have been lined in ash and, consequently, their animals have little to eat,” he mentioned.
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As of Monday afternoon, smoke from the volcano was heading in the direction of China, based on the Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Heart.
The Afar area is vulnerable to earthquakes, resident Ahmed Abdela informed The Related Press. He mentioned he heard a loud sound and described what he known as a shock wave.
“It felt like a sudden bomb had been thrown with smoke and ash.”
A village close to the Danakil Desert, a vacationer attraction, was nonetheless lined in ash on Monday, and vacationers and guides heading to the desert have been stranded within the village, based on Abdela.
— With information from The Related Press
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