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A powerful earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29 has triggered a chain reaction of volcanic eruptions along the Pacific Ring of Fire. The 8.8 magnitude quake, followed by multiple aftershocks as strong as magnitude 6, appears to have reawakened long-dormant giants. Klyuchevskaya Sopka erupted a day after the seismic event for the first time in 600 years. Several other volcanoes, Shiveluch, Bezymianny, Karymsky and Avachinsky, have also roared back to life after roughly 300 years of dormancy. Meanwhile, scientists have detected a thermal anomaly at Mutnovsky, indicating rising heat and suggesting an eruption may be imminent....

A volcano erupted early Tuesday on Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. The eruption of Shiveluch, one of the area's most active volcanoes, sent clouds of dust more than 65,000 feet into the sky, engulfing villages in gray dust. The ash cloud extended over more than 300 miles and the event triggered an aviation warning. Officials closed the skies over the area to aircraft and local authorities advised residents to stay indoors, with schools shuttered and power supplies cut for two villages for a few hours.

Moscow: A significant volcanic eruption in Kamchatka, a peninsula in far-eastern Russia, has prompted the Federal Agency for Air Transport, Rosaviatsiya, to issue a strong recommendation to aircraft to evaluate their flight paths. Rosaviatsiya said that the Bezymianny volcano, one of the most active in the area and located in the eastern section of the peninsula, erupted on Friday morning with a 12,000-meter column of ash that subsequently began to drift towards the southeast.

In Kamchatka Bezymianny volcano threw a 10-kilometer column of ash Bezymianny volcano is one of the most active in the world. This morning Bezymianny volcano, erupting in Kamchatka, threw a column of ash to a height of 10 kilometers. In this connection, set the highest – red code of danger to aircraft. It is reported by Interfax with reference to head of the Kamchatka group volcanic eruption response (KVERT) Institute of Volcanology and seismology, far East branch of RAS Olga Girina. “This means that ash plumes from the volcano pose a risk to international airlines, that is, even for aircraft...