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ayli Gubbi in Ethiopia has been dormant for all of recorded history.
By Julia Jacobo
November 24, 2025, 12:34 PM
... The Hayli Gubbi volcano in northern Ethiopia's Afar Region erupted for the first time in at least 12,000 years early Sunday morning local time, according to Volcano Discovery, a website that tracks active volcanoes around the world.
The eruption spewed large plumes of ash and smoke over Ethiopia and across the Red Sea toward the Arabian Peninsula. Large amounts of sulfur dioxide were also emitted ...
https://abcnews.go.com/International/volcano-erupted-1st-time-10000-years/story?id=127823393
Karadeniz
(24,696 posts)evidence of the original Christianity.
maxsolomon
(37,942 posts)Buried in Volcanic Ash? Pyroclastic Flow?
Karadeniz
(24,696 posts)hlthe2b
(112,281 posts)north to the missile silos culminating in WY, the Dakotas, and Montana.
Now, I'm wondering if Yellowstone won't do us all a "favor," and that Supervolcano take out the majority of all of us west of the Mississippi (directly) and far more from the sulfurous effects, direct and indirect. I mean it has only been 2.08 million years since it last erupted, so, who knows?
As with the nuke attack, it would likely be fast for most of us.

maxsolomon
(37,942 posts)Sparsely populated region with lots of exposed lava. Even in Eritrea to the North there's not a lot of people.
canetoad
(19,892 posts)Indicates an uptick of volcanic activity in an precarious location. This volcano is very close to the divergent fault-line running through the Red sea.
maxsolomon
(37,942 posts)Either way, we're not going to do anything about it!
kentuck
(114,998 posts)I think those interstellar travelers had something to do with it.