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Shiveluch volcano

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The Kamchatka volcano Shiveluch located in the north of the peninsula intensifies its activity and threatens with new heavy eruption.
According to RIA Sever DV, lately the volcano Shiveluch activity has increased and a heavy eruption is supposed to occur; it is supposed to be as heavy as the eruption in 2005, when the burning hot lava stream about a kilometre wide and 25 kilometres long erupted from Shiveluch and rushed down its slopes burning everything on its way.

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This image of the 3,283 meter high Shiveluch volcano was taken by the Expedition 15 Crew on July 10, 2007.
A volcanic plume can be seen on the northern side of the volcano.

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According to the local Russian geophysics service, Shiveluch volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula has emitted a cloud of ash to the height of 6,000 meters, with volcanic ash spreading out to a distance of 90 km southeast of the volcano.
Over 170 minor tremors have been registered round Mount Shiveluch in the past twenty-four hours.
The 3,283 meters high Shiveluch volcano is the northernmost volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

Position: 56.653°N, 161.360°E;

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NASAs Terra satellite caught the Shiveluch and Klyuchevskaya Volcanoes both erupting simultaneously, on April 26, 2007.
Shiveluch (Sheveluch) and Klyuchevskaya (Klyuchevskoy or Kliuchevskoi) are both stratovolcanoes on Russias Kamchatka Peninsula

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Shiveluch
Latitude: 56.653°N Longitude: 161.360°E

Kliuchevskoi
Latitude: 56.057°N Longitude: 160.638°E

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Mount Sheveluch

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RE: Mount Shevutich

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Mount Shevutich, a volcano on the Russian far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, is spewing gas and ash to heights of up to 5,000 feet.
Satellite images show clear signs of a thermal anomaly in the area.
Residents nearby might face ashfall and mud slides from the slope of Mt. Shiveluch.

Air traffic in the vicinity might also be endangered.

No seismic monitoring is currently being conducted at Mt. Shiveluch because a February eruption of the volcano destroyed a research base and a monitoring station.
The last eruption on February 27 destroyed the western part of Mt. Shiveluch's crater. An ash cloud about 150 kilometres wide spread over 700 kilometres to the west of the volcano across Kamchatka and the Okhotsk Sea.