A scientist said there had been higher seismic activity over the past year in the Afar region in Ethiopia before the Hayli Gubbi volcano erupted on Sunday morning, covering nearby villages in dust.
The head of the seismology department at the Institute of Geophysics, Space Science, and Astronomy at Addis Ababa University, Professor Atalay Ayele, explained that scientists had measured increased seismic activity over the past year in the Afar region near the Erta Ale range, in which the Hayli Gubbi volcano is situated.
Erta Ale is a magma lake, as you know. So, the magma is not very deep it is just close to the surface. So, this eruption went off with not much earthquake activity, but it was energetic enough to cause a very huge volcanic plume in the atmosphere, Ayele told Reuters on Tuesday November 25
