Imagine a mountain that for 12,000 years seemed harmless like a rocky hill, suddenly opens its mouth. This is exactly what happened in November 2025 in Ethiopia. After millennia of silence, the “Hayli Gubbi” volcano roared so much that its ash darkened the skies of Yemen and northern India. This event is a serious alarm for our planet. Contrary to popular belief that worries about famous volcanoes such as Etna or Yellowstone, the next global disaster may arise from the mountains we think are “dormant”. (Live Science)
When history surprises
We don’t have to go far to understand the depth of the tragedy. In 1982, the El Chichón volcano in Mexico, which had been dormant for centuries, suddenly erupted. The authorities were completely surprised; An avalanche of hot rock and gas leveled forests and blocked rivers. More than 2,000 people died in that incident; But the story did not end there. Sulfur from the explosion entered the atmosphere, cooling the Northern Hemisphere and altering monsoon rainfall patterns, resulting in dire droughts thousands of kilometers away.
Sudden climate change coincided with civil war and poverty in Ethiopia and marked the great famine of 1983-1985. A disaster that killed about a million people. Few people know that the trigger of this human tragedy in Africa was pulled by an unknown mountain in Mexico.
our mental error; Silence is not a sign of satisfaction
Why do we ignore these mountains? The answer lies in psychology and the “normality bias” in humans, and we think that what has been silent for generations will always remain silent; But the statistics say something else.
Three-quarters of large eruptions (similar to El Chichón or larger) originate from volcanoes that have been inactive for at least 100 years. This means that exactly where we have the least oversight is the most dangerous.
Invest in celebrities instead of real risks
Unfortunately, investments and scientific research are flowing towards “volcanic celebrities”. The number of articles written on Mount Etna alone is greater than the total number of studies on 160 volcanoes in Indonesia and the Philippines. Meanwhile, millions of people live in the shadow of these unknown and unsupervised mountains. We need an urgent change in global attitude; Before the next “off” mountain wakes up and repeats history again.
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