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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Vladivostok, September 18 /Xinhua/ — A code orange aviation alert has been issued in Kamchatka due to the threat of an ash column reaching a height of four kilometers. This was reported by RIA Novosti, citing the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to reports, at 9:30 a.m. local time on Thursday, explosions sent ash from the Shiveluch volcano four kilometers above sea level. The ash plume extended 40 kilometers west of the volcano. Experts have issued a Code Orange aviation alert for the volcano.
Shiveluch Volcano is located 50 kilometers north of the village of Klyuchi and 450 kilometers from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Monitoring of the volcano's activity is ongoing.
The regional press service for the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that the ash plume is spreading southwestward into the peninsula and there are no populated areas along its path. –0–
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