{"id":280756,"date":"2025-11-24T14:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280756\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:56:09","slug":"ethiopian-volcano-erupts-for-first-time-in-12000-years-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280756\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in 12,000 years | Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A volcano in Ethiopia<\/a>\u2019s north-eastern region has erupted for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending thick plumes of smoke up to 9 miles (14km) into the sky, and across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman.<\/p>\n

The Hayli Gubbi volcano, located in Ethiopia\u2019s Afar region about 500 miles north-east of Addis Ababa near the Eritrean border, erupted on Sunday for several hours.<\/p>\n

A local official, Mohammed Seid, said there were no casualties, but the eruption could have economic implications for the local community of livestock herders.<\/p>\n

Seid said there was no previous record of an eruption by the Hayli Gubbi volcano, and that he fears for the livelihoods of residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile no human lives and livestock have been lost so far, many villages have been covered in ash and as a result their animals have little to eat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The volcano, which rises about 500 metres in altitude, sits within the Rift Valley, a zone of intense geological activity where two tectonic plates meet.<\/p>\n

Ash clouds from the volcano drifted over Yemen, Oman, India and northern Pakistan, the VAAC said.<\/p>\n

The Afar region is prone to earthquakes and a resident, Ahmed Abdela, said he heard a loud sound and what he described as a shock wave. \u201cIt felt like a sudden bomb had been thrown with smoke and ash,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A satellite image of ash from the Hayli Gubbi volcano eruption in Ethiopia. Photograph: Modis<\/p>\n

In videos shared on social media, which AFP could not immediately verify, a thick column of white smoke could be seen rising.<\/p>\n

The Smithsonian Institution\u2019s Global Volcanism Program said Hayli Gubbi has had no known eruptions during the Holocene<\/a>, which began about 12,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age.<\/p>\n

Simon Carn, a volcanologist and professor at the Michigan Technological University, confirmed on Bluesky that Hayli Gubbi \u201chas no record of Holocene eruptions\u201d.<\/p>\n

With reporting by AP and AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A volcano in Ethiopia\u2019s north-eastern region has erupted for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending thick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-280756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}