On Saturday, the volcano, which lies on Paramushir island on the Northern Kurils sent up into the air an ash plume of about 2 kilometers above the sea level. "The ash cloud has moved east of the volcano," a report by a local volcano eruption response unit [KVERT] of Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, reads.
Explosive event at #Ebeko #volcano on 23 May, 2017. https://t.co/iRLkXPLDHx pic.twitter.com/Tk3Y2pvktw
— Dr Janine Krippner (@janinekrippner) 25 мая 2017 г.
The current activity of the volcano may impact low flights and operations of Severo-Kurilsk airport, KVERT group has noted.
Ash plume from Ebeko #volcano on 17 June, 2017 https://t.co/iRLkXPLDHx pic.twitter.com/13yw0ZzRqk
— Dr Janine Krippner (@janinekrippner) 19 июня 2017 г.
Wind gusts have also reportedly brought volcano ash to the small town of Severo-Kurilsk, Russian media wrote.
Sporadic ash emissions were reported all through the year of 2017, with dense ash plumes rising several hundred meters, which was easilyobserved from Severo-Kurilsk. The activity reportedly continued with a moderate emission of steam and gas, triggered by ground waters, which get heated by an underlying magma. The latter doesn’t usually reach the surface, though.
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The Kuril islands in Russia's breathtakingly beautiful Sakhalin region, are a volcanic archipelago that occupies a vast land of roughly 1,300 kilometers northeast of Japan’s Hokkaido to Russia’s Kamchatka, drawing a line between the Sea of Okhotsk and the north Pacific Ocean.
