Residents have been ordered to stay inside and warned of dangerous mudflows.
started to erupt on Tuesday, triggering a series of emergency warnings. The Shiveluch volcano in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula spewed out an ash cloud that climbed over 12 miles high, carpeting surrounding villages in a layer of gray ash over 3 inches thick—the deepest in 60 years.
The cloud covers an area of almost 42,000 square miles, according to the Kamchatka Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Geophysical Survey. No casualties have been immediately reported, but the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team issued a red notice for aircraft flying in the region, and locals have been warned of mudflows caused by lava melting snow on the mountain.
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