A volcano in Ethiopia has erupted for the first recognized time in 10,000 years, spewing plumes of thick smoke and ash excessive into the sky and impacting air journey hundreds of miles away in India.
The long-dormant Hayli Gubbi volcano in the Afar area in Ethiopia’s northeast roared to life Sunday, masking the neighboring villages in mud and creating challenges for farmers.
Volcano in Ethiopia erupts for the first time in 10,000 years
While no casualties had been reported, the eruption poses a menace to the area people of livestock herders by smothering important grazing lands, native administrator Mohammed Seid instructed The Associated Press
Residents described listening to a terrifying blast at the second of the eruption.
“It felt like a sudden bomb had been thrown with smoke and ash,” native resident Ahmed Abdela instructed the information company.
The eruption was seen from satellites, with NASA pictures exhibiting thick plumes of mud rising into the sky and billowing across the Red Sea.
Volcanic clouds from the eruption drifted over Yemen, Oman, and into Pakistan and India, in accordance with the Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Center.
Pakistan’s Meteorological Department issued a warning after ash entered its airspace late on Monday.
In India, flag provider Air India cancelled a number of home and worldwide flights to hold out “precautionary checks on those aircraft which had flown over certain geographical locations after the Hayli Gubbi volcanic eruption,” it mentioned on X.
Delhi, which is experiencing a wave of extreme air air pollution, will not be anticipated to be considerably affected as a result of the ash is drifting at a excessive altitude, India’s Meteorological Department (IMD) mentioned.
The plumes are anticipated to quickly transfer eastwards, the IMD added.
Located about 800 kilometers (500 miles) northeast of capital Addi Ababa, Hayli Gubbi is the southernmost volcano of the Erta Ale Range, a volcanic chain in Ethiopia’s Afar area.
It rises about 500 meters in altitude and sits inside a zone of intense geological exercise the place two tectonic plates meet.