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This volcano, seen here from the slopes of Avachinskaya Sopka, lies just a short way north-west of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii. It is 3456m high. Volcanoes dotted over the landscape of rolling plains, covered in sparse forests, hills and rivers make up the typical Kamchatkan landscape. Many of the volcanoes reach up to and over 4000m and are glaciated. Kamchatka boasts the world's most exciting and rich areas of volcanic activity.

Experts monitoring Russia's massive Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano said Monday it was spewing ash more than four miles into the sky. In addition to the huge ash column, volcanic station head Yuri Demyanchuk said the volcano launched volcanic dust nearly 5.6 miles into the air Sunday

Koriakskaya Sopka Volcano Mover Mike

Recall the post about, Kamchatka Volcano Spews Ash, well dgavin at Bad Astronomy and Universe Today has some beautiful pictures of Kliuchevskoi erupting

It's on of the few subduction volcanoes that has hot enough magma for fluid lava flows. The Eruption started on May 31st.

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The pictures were taken by the USGS AVO and not the Russian KVERT. KVERT is seriously underfunded and no longer staffed, so updates are not readily available from them anymore.

Puff prediction showing Klyuchevskoy ash extending to Unimak Island in the Aleutians. This image was generated June 29, 2007. Puff is a three-dimensional volcanic ash computer model used to forecast how volcanic ash moves through the atmosphere after an eruption. The computer model was developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Credit: Image courtesy Geophysical Institute/Alaska Volcano Observatory

Klyuchevskoy Volcano Mover Mike