Quoted from a geology feed:
"Just hours after one of the most powerful earthquakes in recorded history—a magnitude 8.8 quake shook Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula—the towering Klyuchevskoy volcano erupted in spectacular fashion.
Standing at 15,597 feet (4,754 meters), Klyuchevskoy is Eurasia’s tallest active volcano, perched on the volatile Pacific Ring of Fire. On July 30, the volcano unleashed lava down its western slope, shooting plumes of ash 1.5 miles high and over 36 miles east, with scientists warning that eruptions up to 5 miles high remain possible.
Interestingly, while the eruption wasn’t caused by the earthquake, the quake likely intensified the explosion’s force, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. In the days leading up to the blast, Russian scientists had already spotted a lava lake at the summit, a clear sign the volcano was primed to erupt."
A false-color satellite photo from 2023 shows a devilish pair of lava flows and an enormous plume of smoke spewing from Klyuchevskoy, the tallest volcano in Europe and Asia.
www.livescience.com
Well, it's called the Ring of Fire for good reason! And it's been quiet for a while!
Oh the humanity... all those greenhouse gasses. While here we are wasting tax dollars building windmills and pouring gas from pathetic EPA cans to prevent an ounce of gasoline from spilling into the atmosphere.
Sirhr
climatecosmos.com
earthquake.usgs.gov
