Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 04:56am on 31 Jul 2025,Thursday Weather & Environment
Hours after a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering Pacific-wide tsunami warnings, the Klyuchevskoy volcano—Eurasia’s tallest active volcano—erupted explosively. The Russian Academy of Sciences reported “burning hot lava flowing down the western slope,” a “powerful glow above the summit crater” and multiple explosions . Ash rose up to 3 kilometers during daylight observation, and night-time glows had appeared even before the quake, indicating heightened volcanic restlessness . The earthquake, recorded as one of the six strongest globally, prompted widespread evacuations across Japan, Hawaii, Chile, Ecuador, and beyond, though no fatalities have been confirmed so far. (PC: X)
