A MASSIVE volcanic eruption has sent an ash cloud 12 miles into the sky, threatening aircraft. The Shiveluch volcano on Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula erupted just after midnight an…
3The ash cloud reached 12 miles into the atmosphereLava flows tumbled from the volcano, which had been threatening to erupt for the past year, melting snow and prompting a warning of mud flows along a nearby highway."The ash reached 20 kilometres high, the ash cloud moved westwards and there was a very strong fall of ash on nearby villages," said Danila Chebrov, director of the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Survey.
"The volcano was preparing for this for at least a year and the process is continuing though it has calmed a little now.”
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