Eurasia’s
highest volcano Klyuchevskoi spews ash up to 3.7 miles
10
October, 2013
October
10, 2013 – KAMCHATKA – Eurasia’s
highest volcano, Klyuchevskoi, on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s
Far East, churned out ash to a height of six kilometers (3.7 miles)
on Thursday morning, local Emergencies Ministry’s department
reported. “The cloud of ash moved in the eastern direction from the
volcano,” the department said in a statement adding that the cloud
of ash posed no danger to residential areas. The statement warned all
tourism companies operating in the region against holding tours in
the areas located near the volcano, which can also pose threat to
aircraft. Klyuchevskoi’s most powerful eruption was registered
between January and May of 2005. Following that eruption, the volcano
“sank” by 50 meters (about 165 feet), from 4,800 meters (about
16,000 feet) to the current 4,750 meters (15,845 feet). Kamchatka
lies within the Pacific’s volatile ‘Ring of Fire.’ –Voice
of Russia
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