OREANDA-NEWS The Shiveluch volcano in Kamchatka again threw out a column of ash to a height of 12 km. This is reported by TASS with reference to the regional branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

According to the service, the height of the ejection was about 12 km. The eruption of the volcano began on April 11 at 00:54 local time. The height of the ash cloud ejected by the volcano reached 20 km, the size of the cloud-plume reached from 250 to 400 km.

"The eruption of the Shiveluch volcano continues. According to satellite data, the height of the ash emission was about 12 thousand meters above sea level," the report says.

Earlier, the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the FEB RAS reported that the ashfall in the village of Klyuchi in Kamchatka, which began on April 11 due to the eruption of the volcano Shiveluch, became the strongest in the last 60 years. The height of the ash layer has reached 8.5 cm, while the ash fall continues.

The Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences also reported that ash from the Shiveluch volcano spread 500 km to the northwest.