Towering clouds of ash and glowing lava are spewing from two volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, one of the world’s most concentrated areas of geothermal activity, with about 30 active volcanoes. Scientists say major eruptions could be on the way.
FILE - Flames and smoke billowing during the Klyuchevskaya volcano's eruption on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, on March 8, 2021. Towering clouds of ash and glowing lava are spewing from two volcanoes on the Kamchatka Peninsula and scientists say major eruptions could be on the way. The sudden new activity followed a strong earthquake on Saturday Nov. 19, 2022, news reports said.
MOSCOW — Towering clouds of ash and glowing lava are spewing from two volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and scientists say major eruptions could be on the way. The peninsula, which extends into the Pacific Ocean about 6,600 kilometers east of Moscow, is one of the world’s most concentrated areas of geothermal activity, with about 30 active volcanoes.The Russian Academy of Sciences’ vulcanology institute said that at Klyuchevskaya Sopka, which at 4,754 meters is Eurasia’s tallest active volcano, as many as 10 explosions an hour were being recorded.Kamchatka is sparsely populated.
The volcanoes are about 450 kilometers from the peninsula’s only major city, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
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