People watch Klyuchevskoy volcano eruption on Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula on March 16, 2021. Maxim Fesyunov/AFP via Getty Images
MOSCOW—The Klyuchevskoy volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula began erupting after Wednesday’s powerful earthquake in the Pacific, a geological monitoring service said.
In a statement posted on Telegram, the Russian Academy of Sciences’ United Geophysical Service said: “A descent of burning hot lava is observed on the western slope. Powerful glow above the volcano, explosions.”
