The eruption of Eurasia's highest volcano, Klyuchevskoi, has started again Sunday night in Kamchatka

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

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The eruption of Eurasia's highest volcano, Klyuchevskoi, has started again Sunday night in Kamchatka which is called the Land of Volcanoes and Geysers, experts said Monday. According to Alexei Ozerov, senior scientific worker of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, after a year of dormancy, seismic preparations for the eruption of Klyuchevskoi started a month ago. Small earthquakes and seismic swarms were detected near the volcano. The seismic stations on the peninsula are registering a great number of surface earthquakes and fluorescence above the crater; making outbursts of ashes are quite possible. Mr. Ozerov said that there are one or two upper craters, 700 meters in diameter, from which slag bursts out and small lava streams flow. The eruptions of the upper crater, if compared with the past periods, usually last from one month to several years and are dangerous for domestic and foreign flights. The closest inhabited area is the town of Klyuchi, about 30 kilometers from the volcano. Klyuchevskoi, however, poses no immediate threat to the town. The 4,833-meter volcano's measurable shaking has made it difficult to monitor the seismic activity of its closest neighbor, the Bezymyanny Volcano, whose last mighty eruption was registered on January 11.

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