US EditionEthiopia's Hayli Gubbi Volcano Erupts After 10,000 Years
The eruption sent ash plumes up to 14 km high, disrupting flights across India and West Asia with multiple cancellations and reroutes, the India Meteorological Department reported.
- At about 08:30 UTC on Sunday, Hayli Gubbi volcano erupted, producing a plume up to about 14 km, according to VAAC reports.
- Tectonic rifting in the East African Rift explains how magma reached Hayli Gubbi, which the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program says had no Holocene eruptions until now.
- Updated IASI-C and SACS satellite retrievals showed a large SO2 plume with total mass loading of 58.4 kt, drifting eastward toward the Arabian Peninsula and Indian Ocean, while VAAC advisories tracked ash between 9 and 10.5 km.
- Airlines reported cancellations and reroutings as Air India canceled 11 flights and Indian media reported at least 28 reroutes on November 25, while Afar village residents faced ash coverage and mobile medical teams were deployed.
- Forecast dispersion data show continued transport of ash and gas as ash and SO2 drifted eastward for two days, disrupting flight corridors linking Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, while VAAC Tokyo reported ash above 10.6 km no longer visible by midday November 25.
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A Volcano in Ethiopia Just Erupted for the First Time in 12,000 Years
For the first time in roughly 12,000 years, the Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia’s Afar region has erupted. The long-dormant shield volcano popped off Sunday with a blast locals described as sounding like a bomb, spewing thick plumes of ash high enough into the sky to disrupt any aircraft passing by at international flight altitudes. No casualties have been reported. Mostly because nobody is dumb enough to live in a place geologists nickname “the…
Ethiopian Volcano Subsides, Leaving a Trail of Disruption and Canceled Flights
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Volcanic activity in northern Ethiopia’s long-dormant Hayli Gubbi volcano subsided Tuesday after an eruption over the weekend that left a trail of destruction in nearby villages and caused flight cancellations after ash plumes disrupted high-altitude flight paths. Villages in the district of Afdera in the Afar region were covered in ash, officials said residents were coughing, and livestock found their grass and water total…
Eruption of long-dormant Ethiopian volcano subsides
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Volcanic activity in northern Ethiopia’s long-dormant Hayli Gubbi volcano subsided Tuesday, days after an eruption that left a trail of destruction in nearby villages and caused flight cancellations after ash plumes disrupted high-altitude flight paths. Villages in the district of Afdera in the Afar region were covered in ash, officials said residents were coughing, and livestock found their grass and water totally covere…
The sleeping volcano Hayli Gubbi has come to life after millennia. His ash cloud travels across several countries.
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