Eurasia’s tallest volcano has violently erupted, throwing a 1,000-mile-long (1,600 kilometers) cloud of dust and ash into the air, new NASA satellite images show.
Klyuchevskoy, sometimes referred to as Klyuchevskaya Sopka, is an active stratovolcano in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, which is home to more than 300 other volcanos. Klyuchevskoy’s peak stands at 15,584 feet (4,750 meters) above sea level, making it taller than any other volcano in Asia or Europe, according to the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT).
Eruptions of this magnitude have the potential to dramatically affect the climate of the entire planet.
On November 1st, the cloud of dust and ash from this eruption actually reached a maximum height of seven and a half miles…
Klyuchevskoy has been continually erupting since mid-June. But on Nov. 1, a massive volcanic explosion released a torrent of smoke and ash, which reached a maximum height of 7.5 miles (12 km) above Earth’s surface, according to NASA’s Earth Observatory.
This is serious.
But because it is happening in Russia, most people in the western world simply do not care what is happening.
Meanwhile, rapidly rising magma is now only about 500 meters from the surface near the town of Grindavik, Iceland…
A huge nine-mile long magma intrusion, just northwest of Grindavik, has formed and is growing, according to experts, with magma thought to be as close as 500 metres from the surface.
Just a few days ago, experts were saying that magma was accumulating three miles below ground, but it has now risen much closer, if estimates are correct.
‘At this stage, it is not possible to determine exactly whether and where magma might reach the surface,’ the Meteorological Office said.
Prior to being evacuated, local residents could literally hear “thunder in the ground”as rapidly moving magma caused earthquake after earthquake to happen right under their feet…
Residents in Iceland fear homes in the evacuated town of Grindavik could be ‘frozen in time like Pompeii’ should they be covered in lawa.
Unfortunately, this could be just the beginning of Iceland’s problems.
According to one volcanologist, what we are currently witnessing could be part of “a new eruptive phase” which could possibly last for hundreds of years…
Iceland’s looming volcano blast is just the beginning of a new era of volcanic eruptions that will last for centuries, with the build-up of magma beneath the coastal town of Grindavik signalling that more is to come, scientists have warned.
Of course it isn’t just Iceland that is seeing unusual seismic activity.
According to the Smithsonian Institute’s Global Volcanism Program, 19 volcanoes are erupting all over the globe right now, but that list “doesn’t include all erupting volcanos”…
The Smithsonian Institute’s Global Volcanism Program tracks new eruptions and updates its list of currently erupting volcanos on Wednesdays. The most recent update shows three new eruptions, bringing the list’s total to 19 eruptions at once. The list doesn’t include all erupting volcanos.
The new volcanic eruptions have some people voicing their concerns on social media.
“Volcanoes erupt simultaneously in Italy, Iceland, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Philippines, etc. Below is a volcanic activity map of 2013 vs 2023. Totally normal, right?” one person posted on X, formerly Twitter.
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