The Shiveluch volcano is ejecting a new ash cloud up to 4.5 kilometers high, the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVRT) of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported on Friday. The ash cloud has spread 120 kilometers east of the giant volcano.
According to Kommersant, volcanologists are also monitoring another erupting volcano, Krasheninnikov. On October 3, an ash cloud, lifted by wind from the base of the volcano, began to spread from there to an altitude of 3 kilometers above sea level.
The ash cloud has spread 75 kilometers southeast toward the Pacific Ocean. There are no populated areas along the cloud’s path.
Both volcanoes are under an orange aviation alert. Their activities may pose a threat to aviation, including international aviation, whose routes (between the United States and Southeast Asia) pass along the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula.