Klyuchevskaya Sopka the highest mountain on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia and the highest active volcano of Eurasia, is a stratovolcano. It is part of the natural Volcanoes of Kamchatka UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Today, Klyuchevskoy volcano spewed ash up to 7.5 kilometers in the air, the Kamchatka department of Russian Academy of Sciences’ Geophysical Service told the Russian News Agency TASS.
“According to satellite images, the ash column was as high as 7.5 km above the sea level. Ash is carried to the north-east. The concrete size of the ash plume is unknown since a large area near the volcano is covered in thick clouds,” the Geophysical Service said.
TASS reported that No reports have been made yet about volcanic ash eruptions in settlements of the Ust-Kamchatsky district, where the volcano is located.
The Klyuchevskoy, also known as the Klyuchevskaya Sopka, is located 360 km to the north-west of the capital of the Kamchatka Krai, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The nearest town, Klyuchi, is separated from it by a distance of 30 km and is home to about 5,000 people at present.
Klyuchevskaya’s steep, symmetrical cone towers about 100 kilometres (60 mi) from the Bering Sea, and the volcano’s first recorded eruption occurred in 1697; it has been almost continuously active ever since.
These are some beautiful pictures of the volcano
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