MOSCOW: A volcano erupted for the primary time in 475 years in Russia’s jap Kamchatka area, the nation’s emergency authority mentioned on Sunday (Aug 3), days after one of the strongest earthquakes on document hit the area.
Photos launched by Russian state media present a towering plume of ash spewing from the Krasheninnikov volcano, which final erupted in 1550, based on the Smithsonian Establishment’s International Volcanism Program.
The plume is estimated to have reached an altitude of 6,000m, Kamchatka’s Ministry of Emergency Conditions mentioned in a submit on Telegram.
“The plume is spreading eastward from the volcano towards the Pacific Ocean. There are not any populated areas alongside its path, and no ashfall has been recorded in inhabited localities,” the ministry mentioned.
The volcano has been assigned an “orange” aviation hazard code, the ministry added, that means flights within the space could also be disrupted.
It got here after Klyuchevskoy, one other volcano within the area – the best energetic in Europe and Asia – erupted on Wednesday.
Eruptions of Klyuchevskoy are fairly widespread, with at the least 18 occurring since 2000, based on the International Volcanism Program.
Each latest eruptions adopted one of many strongest earthquakes recorded, which struck on Wednesday, sparking tsunami warnings and evacuations of tens of millions of individuals from coastal areas from Japan to Hawaii to Ecuador.
The worst harm was seen in Russia, the place a tsunami crashed via the port of Severo-Kurilsk and submerged a fishing plant, officers mentioned.
The 8.8-magnitude quake struck off Petropavlovsk on Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula and was the strongest since 2011, when a 9.1-magnitude quake off Japan prompted a tsunami that killed greater than 15,000 folks.
