The Kraheninnikov volcano, located on the Russian Peninsula of Kamchatka, in the east of Russiaerupted this Sunday after about six hundred years without activity.
The eruption occurs days after the Magnitude 8.8 earthquake on the Richter scale that was recorded last Wednesday in this region, according to Europa Press.
Dozens of replicas have happened since then and, in fact, another earthquake of magnitude 6.8 was recorded today next to the coast of Kamchatka, according to the Russian Unified Geophysical Service (SGU) in its Telegram channel.
Kamchatka’s Ancient Volcano Awakens After 500 Years
The Kraheninnikov volcan
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For seismologists it is a new replica of the earthquake last Wednesday, which has been the largest earthquake since 1952, so it activated Tsunami alerts and notices along the American coast of the Pacific, according to EFE.
The earthquake today occurred 279 kilometers from Petropávlosk-Kamchatski, at a depth of 25.9 kilometers.
“We are witnesses of extreme events in Kamchatka,” said the director of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far East of the Academy of Science of Russia, Alexéi Ozerov, in statements to the Russian official agency Tass.
The scientist indicated that the last great earthquake has considerably increased volcanic activity in the Peninsula.
The volcano consists of a volcanic structure of fused cones of nine kilometers in diameter, and has left some shocking images of the smoke coming out of its chimney, European media point out as European media BE.
This is only one of the formations that are part of the Eastern volcanic belt, located 200 kilometers from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski.
Powerful earthquake in Russia causes tsunamis and alerts in the Pacific
“We associated the rashes with the last earthquake, which activated the magmatic centers and pumped additional energy,” said Ozerov.
In addition, he added that the Krahenínnikov volcano had been inactive since approximately 1400, according to quote from EFE.
The Kamchatka Peninsula is one of the territories with the greatest volcanic and seismic activity in the world, even being dangerous for civil aviation due to the abundant ash clouds that periodically expel the still active volcanoes.
