A long-dormant volcano has erupted on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula just days after a magnitude 8.8 megaquake rocked the region on July 30. It is the second volcano to blow its top in the region in the last five days, following the eruption of Klyuchevskoy within hours of last week's quake.
The roughly 6,000-foot-tall (1,800 meters) Krasheninnikov volcano erupted overnight into Sunday (Aug. 3), for the first time in about 500 years. The eruption blew a plume of ash 3.7 miles (6 kilometers) into the sky but posed no threat to populated areas, Russia's Ministry for Emergency Situations for the Kamchatka Territory wrote in Telegram posts.
