On Saturday, August 17, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Kamchatka Peninsula, followed by an eruption of the Shiveluch ...

A little-known volcano in the remote Kuril Islands, Zavaritzki, links an explosion in 1831 with drastic climate changes.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, December 21. /TASS/. The Klyuchevskoy Volcano in the Kamchatka Region has spewed up ash as high as 7 km above sea level, the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team ...

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, March 21 (Itar-Tass) — A series of disharges of ash from the crater of volcano Shiveluch has been recorded on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Those posed no hazard to the ...

At the meeting with Solodov, Putin assessed the state of the Krai's fishery complex and its socio-economic development ...

Vladimir Putin held a working m Kamchatka Territory Governor Vladimir Solodov. The head of the region briefed the President ...

Geysers are generally associated with volcanic activity, and that’s certainly the case in Kronotsky. Kamchatka as a whole is abundantly pustulated with volcanoes, of which about two dozen ...

The Kamchatka Peninsula ... Its highlands rise to cone-shaped volcanic peaks, snow-streaked in summer, and to ridges of bare, gray rock. Its gentler slopes are upholstered in boreal greens.

With around 300 volcanoes, 20 of which are active, the Kamchatka Peninsula is one of the most volcanically active areas in the world. In the north is Plosky Tolbachik, a volcano with a history of ...