A volcano has started to erupt after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded sparked tsunami warnings.
The 8.8-magnitude quake struck in Russia’s far east, triggering warnings and huge waves in the Pacific ocean.
The first tsunami waves landed on Russia’s Kuril Islands on the Kamchatka peninsula, which sits on the ‘Ring of Fire,’ where a state of emergency was declared following the earthquake in the early hours of this morning.
Now the Klyuchevskoy volcano, close to the epicentre of the earthquake, has started to erupt.
Russia’s Academy of Sciences’ United Geophysical Service said it had seen ‘a descent of burning hot lava’, as well as explosions from its mouth.
Volcanic activity had been recorded at the volcano, the largest in Eurasia, yesterday, but the volcano seems to have been triggered again by the quake and more than 200 aftershocks.
No deaths or substantial damage have been reported so far, although some people were injured in the evacuated town of Severo-Kurilsk.
