Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano in Russia's Far East sends another ash plume 7-km high
12:17, 5 August 2025
The Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano has spewed another high column of ash into the air over the past day, the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences said in a statement on Telegram, TASS reports.
There are about 80 side blast craters and cinder cones on the volcano’s slopes. Klyuchevskaya Sopka is located 30 km from the village of Klyuchi in the Ust-Kamchatsky district, which is home to about 4,500 people. Nearby, the Bezymyanny volcano is also erupting.
Earlier it was reporred that the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano erupted in Kamchatka as a result of July 30 earthquake.