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The Volcanic Ash Advisory Center in Toulouse, France, released an advisory to planes flying in the region, indicating that ash had reached altitudes of 49,000 feet.

Air traffic controllers as far as India were bracing for possible flight disruptions as a result of the drifting ash cover, according to reports.

There were no casualties as a result of the eruption, local officials told The Associated Press. But the livelihoods of nearby communities of livestock herders could be impacted because many villages have been covered in ash, leaving little land for the animals to graze on.

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Afar Government Communication Bureau via AP
PHOTO: In this photo released by the Afar Government Communication Bureau, ash billows from the first time eruption of the Hayli Gubbi Volcano in Ethiopia's Afar region, Nov. 23, 2025.
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The volcano, located near the Eritrean–Ethiopian border, continued erupting as of Monday evening local time, but has since stopped, according to the Volcanic Ash Advisory Center.

Images showed towering plumes of ash emerging from the volcano's summit.

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PHOTO: The Hayli Gubbi Volcano in Ethiopia captured erupting on satellite imagery, Nov. 23, 2025.
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Afar Government Communication Bureau via AP
PHOTO: In this photo released by the Afar Government Communication Bureau, people watch ash billow from the first time eruption of the Hayli Gubbi Volcano in Ethiopia's Afar region, Nov. 23, 2025.
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Hayli Gubbi, a broad, dome-shaped volcano with gentle slopes, has a summit height of more than 1,700 feet. It features a symmetrical scoria cone with a 650-foot-wide crater.

It is the southernmost volcano in the Erta Ale range, a volcanic chain in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression, located where three tectonic plates meet. The Erta Ale range is known for its persistent lava lakes and is primarily made up of shield volcanoes.

🌋 #HayliGubbi — a once-dormant shield volcano in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift — has exploded to life. Its ash plume soared to 45,000 ft, signaling a rare, high-energy event in a volcano with no known eruptions for millennia.

Visualized: @NASAEarth
🛰 #NASA🌍 #worldview https://t.co/Tg217OWotj pic.twitter.com/BBPyaUjAzz

— Worldview Earth Data 🌍🌱 (@WED_explorer) November 23, 2025

The last-known eruption at Hayli Gubbi was previously listed as \"unknown,\" according to the Smithsonian Institution. But there is \"credible\" geologic evidence that the last eruption occurred more than 12,000 years ago.

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