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Volcano Ebeko on Kuril Islands Spews Ash 2.8 Miles (VIDEO)

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The volcano Ebeko on Paramushir Island, in Russia’s Kuril Islands archipelago, spewed out a column of ash to a height of 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles), the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry's department in the Far Eastern Sakhalin Region said in a statement on Sunday.
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"On November 4, the emergencies control center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry's department in the Sakhalin Region received information that the Ebeko volcano was seen spewing ash to a height of up to 4.5 kilometers. The plume of ash has moved to the northeast of the volcano, to a distance of up to five kilometers," the statement read.

The town of Severo-Kurilsk, located seven kilometer away from the volcano, has not experienced ash fall, the statement added.

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According to the statement, the situation on the island is non-life threatening for local residents.

Ebeko awoke from dormancy in 2016 and has repeatedly spewn ash since then.

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