"There were no casualties from the eruption, which sent thick plumes of smoke up to 14km (nine miles) into the sky, sending ash clouds to Yemen, Oman, India, and northern Pakistan, according to the Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC) in France. Ahmed Abdela, a resident of the Afar region, said it felt like a sudden bomb had been thrown. Many people who had been heading to the Danakil desert, a local tourist attraction, were left stranded in ash-covered Afdera on Monday, he said."
"While 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, he said. 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. The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program said Hayli Gubbi has had no known eruptions during the current geological epoch, which experts know as the Holocene."
Hayli Gubbi, a long-dormant volcano in Ethiopia's Afar region, erupted for several hours and sent thick plumes of smoke and ash up to 14 km into the sky. Ash clouds traveled across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman and reached as far as India and northern Pakistan. The eruption covered nearby Afdera village in ash, stranded visitors to the Danakil desert, and left many villages' livestock with little to eat. No human or livestock casualties have been reported so far. Hayli Gubbi rises about 500 metres and sits within the tectonically active Rift Valley. The Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program records no known Holocene eruptions for Hayli Gubbi.
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