The ash spewed miles into the air, blanketing a Russian town in debris.
INSTITUTE OF VOLCANOLOGY AND SEI via Reuters / Russia’s Twitter
The Shiveluch volcano in Russia buried a nearby town in ash, covering houses, cars, and streets.
The volcano, located in the Kamchatka region, spewed debris miles into the air.
Photos and videos show the aftermath of the volcano’s eruption.
Yury Demyanchuk / The Russian Academy of Sciences’ Vulcanology Institute
Its current eruption period began in August 1999 and has produced ongoing explosions and emissions, according to the Global Volcanism Program at the Smithsonian Institution.
ROSCOSMOS via Reuters
A video posted on Twitter by Russia shows one perspective of the eruption’s enormous volcanic ash clouds, which spread miles into the air and spewed thick debris across the region.
—Russia 🇷🇺 (@Russia) April 10, 2023
Institute Of Volcanology and Sei via Reuters
One video from Reuters showed villagers making “ash angels” and trekking through debris.
Head of the Ust-Kamchatsky municipal district Oleg Bondarenko via AP
According to AP, dust clouds spread more than 300 miles north, blanketing whole areas and towns. Over 40,000 square miles of land was hit.
Institute of Volcanology and Sei via AP
The eruption fallout was described by Russian Academy of Sciences Geophysical Survey scientists as the biggest from the volcano in almost 60 years, AP reported.