![]() Chebrov said the lava flows should not reach local villages. The volcano, one of Kamchatka's largest and most active, would probably calm now, Chebrov said, though he cautioned that further major ash clouds could not be excluded. Russian scientists said the quake was an aftershock from an April 3 earthquake.Ībout 300,000 people live on Russia's vast Kamchatka peninsula, which juts into the Pacific Ocean northeast of Japan. "The volcano was preparing for this for at least a year.Īnd the process is continuing though it has calmed a little now," Chebrov said.Īround 24 hours after the volcano began erupting, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Kamchatka, the geological survey said. "The ash reached 20 km high, the ash cloud moved westwards and there was a very strong fall of ash on nearby villages," said Danila Chebrov, director of the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Survey. Pictures showed the cloud billowing over the forests and rivers of the far east and of villages covered in ash. Lava flows tumbled from the volcano, melting snow and prompting a warning of mud flows along a nearby highway while villages were carpeted in drifts of grey ash as deep as 8.5 cm, the deepest in 60 years. The Shiveluch volcano erupted just after midnight and reached a crescendo about six hours later, spewing out an ash cloud over an area of 108,000 square km, according to the Kamchatka Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Geophysical Survey. One of Russia's most active volcanoes erupted on the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula on Tuesday, shooting a vast cloud of ash far into the sky that smothered villages in drifts of grey volcanic dust and triggered an aviation warning.
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