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On November 23, 2025, Hayli Gubbi erupted explosively for the first time in recorded history, likely after about 12,000 years of dormancy, excavating its summit scoria cone and forming new craters up to 200 meters wide.
 
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• Hayli Gubbi is a shield volcano in Ethiopia's Afar region, the southernmost in the Erta Ale Range, located in the geologically active Danakil Depression near the Eritrea border.​
• Lies in the East African Rift System (EARS) at the Afar Triple Junction, where Nubian, Somali, and Arabian plates diverge, one of Earth's hottest and lowest places.​
• The eruption produced ash plumes with SO₂, glass shards, and fine particles, rising 9-14 km high, heard as a loud explosion up to 190 km away, with shock waves felt by locals.​
• Ash clouds drifted across the Red Sea to Yemen, Oman, Pakistan, and India, blanketing nearby villages like Afdera and affecting livestock grazing without reported human or animal deaths.
• Air travel faced disruptions thousands of miles away, including in India.​

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