Volcano Eruptions: Italy, New Zealand, New Guinea, Kuril Islands

Post-apocalyptic pictures of powerful Raikoke volcanic eruption

Raikoke Volcano on the Kuril Islands of Russia, south of the volcanically active Kamchatka Peninsula, erupted on June 22, 2019, for the first time since 1924.

The eruption was so powerful that it covered in ash the entire island on which it sits, killing all vegetation and endemic animals. Here some post-apocalyptic pictures of this terrifying ash landscape.

According to Marina Chibisova, a senior researcher at the laboratory of volcanology and volcanic danger at the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the June 22’s eruption of Raikoke volcano killed everything on the island. 

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