Klyuchevskaya volcano in Kamchatka spewed ash to a height of 12 km.

Klyuchevskaya volcano in the east of the Kamchatka Peninsula has spewed an ash column, the height of which reaches 12 km. This was announced on August 13 in the regional Main Directorate (GU) of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation.

"The volcano has once again spewed an ash column, now to a height of 12 km. The plume from it spreads in a southerly direction," the agency said in a Telegram channel message.

It is specified that the aviation hazard code in the region has been raised to "red", and five districts are located on the route of the ash: Ust-Kamchatsky, Milkovsky, Yelizovsky, Vilyuchinsky and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, where precipitation is not excluded.

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Representatives of the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Group (KVERT) of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported earlier on the same day that the Klyuchevskaya volcano had erupted, raising ash 7 km above sea level. At the same time, the ash plume, according to their information, stretched for 140 kilometers to the southwest.

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