The Klyuchevskoy volcano, located in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, erupted on Thursday morning, sending a towering ash column up to 6.5 kilometers above sea level
The Klyuchevskoy volcano, located in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, erupted on Thursday morning, sending a towering ash column up to 6.5 kilometers above sea level
The Klyuchevskoy volcano, erupting in Kamchatka, ejected a column of ash to a height of up to 6.5 km above sea level on Thursday morning, the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT) of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (IVS) of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences reports.

"Video footage provided by KVERT shows the ash plume extending 5 km southwest of the volcano," the statement said.

KVERT has assigned an orange colour code for aviation hazards to this volcano. International air traffic routes do not pass through the Klyuchevskoy area.


In turn, the regional headquarters of the Russian Emergencies Ministry reports that the ash plume is spreading through populated areas of the Ust-Kamchatsky, Milkovsky and Bystrinsky districts. A small amount of ash is not ruled out there.

Klyuchevskoy is an active volcano in the east of Kamchatka, its height is 4.85 thousand meters. It is located 360 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, on its slope 30 km from the summit is the village of Klyuchi. Klyuchevskoy is one of the most active volcanoes in the world.