The eruption of the Shiveluch volcano in Kamchatka, which began on Tuesday, resulted in the highest ash fall in the village of Klyuchi in the past 60 years, the Far Eastern Branch Institute of Volcanology and Seismology reported. of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Several villages to the east of the peninsula were blanketed in an ash cloud and residents were advised not to go out unless necessary.
According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the ash cloud can reach Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, located 450 kilometers from Shiveluch. Ashfall continues in the villages of Klyuchi and Kozyrevsk. Alexei Ozerov, director of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, noted that the fallout of such a quantity of ash in Klyuchi was last recorded in 1964.
The height of the Young Shiveluch lava dome reaches 2500 meters, the volcano is located at the intersection of the arcs of the Kuril-Kamchatka and Aleutian islands at a distance of 50 kilometers from the village of Klyuchi in the Ust-Kamchatsky region.
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