Did an earthquake cause a volcano to erupt after 600 years?
The overnight eruption of the Krashennikov volcano in Kamchatka, the first in 600 years, is believed to be related to the devastating earthquake that struck Russia’s Far East last week. The Russian state news agency RIA and scientists have reported this information. NDTV reported this citing news agency Reuters. “This is the first historically confirmed eruption of the Krashennikov volcano in 600 years,” RIA quoted Olga Girina, head of the Kamchatka volcano eruption response team, as saying. She added that the eruption could be linked to a recent strong earthquake, which triggered tsunami warnings as far away as French Polynesia and Chile, and then to the eruption of Klyuchevskoy, the most active volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Girina said on the Telegram channel of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology that Krashennikov’s last lava flow occurred in 1463 – more or less 40 years ago – and that no eruptions have been reported since then. The Kamchatka branch of Russia’s emergency services ministry said the volcano’s eruption sent a plume of ash up to 6,000 meters (3.7 miles) high. The volcano itself is 1,856 meters high. “The plume of ash is drifting eastward, towards the Pacific Ocean. There are no populated areas in its path,” the ministry said in a telegram.
