Milan, August 4 (LaPresse) – The Krasheninnikov volcano, located on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East, erupted overnight between Saturday and Sunday for the first time in hundreds of years, just days after a powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake. Krasheninnikov spewed ash as far as 6 kilometers. State media images showed thick clouds of ash rising above the volcano.
"The plume is drifting eastward from the volcano toward the Pacific Ocean. There are no populated areas along its path, and no ashfall has been recorded in inhabited locations," the Kamchatka Emergency Ministry wrote on Telegram during the eruption.
"This is the first historically confirmed eruption of the Krasheninnikov volcano in 600 years," said Olga Girina, head of Kamchatka’s volcanic eruption response team, to the Russian state news agency Ria Novosti. However, the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution, based in the United States, states that the last eruption of Krasheninnikov occurred 475 years ago, in 1550.