Seven volcanoes, including Eurasia’s highest Klyuchevskoi, Krasheninnikov, Avachinsky, and others, have woken up in Russia’s Kamchatka after a powerful quake last week.
The scientists of the Volcanology and Seismology Institute of Russia’s Academy of Science in the country’s Far East called this a “parade of volcanic eruptions” and said that it happened for the first time in 300 years.
The volcanoes became more active shortly after the 8.8 magnitude quake on July 30, the strongest in the region since 1952.
Last week’s earthquake was one of the strongest ever recorded.
The Klyuchevskoi sent an ash column to a height of up to 5.6 miles overnight Tuesday, according to the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Science.
The current eruption of the Krasheninnikov volcano began on Saturday for the first time in almost 600 years.
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