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The eruption of the Shivéluch volcano, one of the largest on the peninsula of Kamchatkain the Russian Far East, covered several nearby towns with ash today with record rainfall in 60 years, according to Russian volcanologist Alexei Ózerov.
????#Attention The volcano #Shiveluchlocated at the eastern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in #Russia, erupted. Air traffic in the area has been suspended and several nearby towns have been ordered to evacuate. pic.twitter.com/8qLj2nclS3
— Vanguard (@vanguardiacom) April 11, 2023
“Previous ash fallout of such magnitude in Kliuchi -the closest town to shiveluch– took place in 1964″stated Ozerovdirector of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Middle East department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on the institution’s website.
According to him SCIENTIST, “At the moment the ash layer reaches around 8.5 centimeters, and the ash rain continues”.
The eruption of shiveluch It began at 0.54 local time (12.54 GMT on April 10), with the release of a column of ash that reached 20 kilometers in height, as reported by Telegram on Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Seismologists designated the eruption the level “red” danger to aviation, the maximum possible.
The governor of the Ust-Kamchatsk region, Oleg Bondarenkoreported on Telegram that the sky was covered with an ash cloud that extended tens of kilometers around the volcano and covered several neighboring towns.
“Thunder is heard due to the electrostatic voltage in the cloud of asheshe wrote on the social network.
For his part, Ozerov noted that the ash cloud “extended 500 kilometers northwest of shiveluch and continue your progress.”
The expert pointed out that the flow pyroplastic (mixture of gases and hot volcanic solid materials) stopped several hundred meters from the regional highway that connects the town of Kliuchi with the capital, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
volcano eruption #Shiveluchwhich occurred in the last few hours, covered the Far East of the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka with ash.
This is the panorama in a nearby town. pic.twitter.com/4ixaZEzNHD— Vanguard (@vanguardiacom) April 11, 2023
In addition, he indicated that the investigation of the rash It is hampered due to the weather situation, with heavy snowfall and blizzards.
Local authorities called on the population to stay in their homes, canceled classes, and nearby highways closed against the risk of mudslides.
In addition, work is being done on the supply of population with medical masks and other means of individual protection.
He shiveluchone of the largest and most active volcanoes in Kamchatka, with a height of 3,283 meters, is made up of three calderas.
In February 2015, it also released a column of ash over 6,000 meters high, forming a cloud that crossed the Peaceful and reached the states of Oregon and Washington In U.S.A.
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