Kamchatka volcano eruption in the Russian Far East

One of Russia’s most active volcanoes erupted on Tuesday, sending a caliber A huge cloud of ash towards the sky and covering towns in gray volcanic dust, setting off an air alert in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of the country.

Schifloch volcano erupted shortly after midnight, reaching its peak about six hours later. It spews a cloud of ash over an area of ​​108,000 square kilometresaccording to the Kamchatka Service of the Geophysical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Lava flows that fell from the volcano melted snow and set off a mudflow alert along a nearby highway, while villages were covered in a layer of mud. Gray ash up to 8.5 cm deepthe deepest in the past sixty years.

“The ash cloud reached 20 kilometers high, the ash cloud moved to the west and there was a strong ash fall over nearby villages,” said Danila Cheprov, director of the Kamchatka Branch of the Geophysical Survey.

“The volcano has been preparing for this for at least a year … and the process is continuing, although it has calmed down a bit now,” Cheprov said.

He stated that the volcano is likely to calm down now, but the formation of new ash clouds cannot be ruled out. He said Lava flows should not reach local villages.

The Kamchatka Volcano Eruption Response Team (KVERT) has issued a red notice to aviation, saying that “ongoing activity could Affect international and low-flying aircraft“.

The head of the Ust-Kamchatsky municipal district, Oleg Bondarenko, said in a Telegram post that some schools on the Kamchatka Peninsula, about 6,800 kilometers east of Moscow, were closed and residents were ordered to stay at home.

Because of what I just saw here with my own eyes, It will be impossible for children to go to school The presence of children here in general is questionable, Bondarenko said.

He said he returned Electricity and potable water were provided to the population.

Shiveluch, one of Kamchatka’s largest and most active volcanoes, has suffered About 60 big eruptions in the last 10,000 yearsmost recently in 2007.

It consists of two main parts, the youngest of which, the youngest, Shiveluch, according to scientists, has been very active in recent months, 2800 meters from Old Shiveluch at 3283 meters.

Scientists have published images of an ash cloud quickly spreading over remote eastern forests, rivers and ash-covered cities. Someone posted a picture of the depth of the ash fallout: more than 8 centimeters.