The Kamtchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team
reported an explosive eruption on Mount Klyuchevskoi slightly before 9.45 am local time on Monday 18 July 2016 (slightly before 9.45 pm on Sunday 17 July 2016 GMT), with an ash column reaching 6 km above the
summit of the volcano and drifted about 30 km to the southeast.
Ash cloud over Mount Klyuchevskoi on 18 July 2016. МЕТЕОВЕСТИ.
4750 m high Mount Klyuchevskoi is part of the Klyuchevskoi Volcano Group in
the Ust-Kamchatka (East Kamchatka) District, along with mounts
Bezymianny and Kamen. The Kamchatka Peninsula lies on the eastern
edge of the Okhotsk Plate, close to its margin with the Pacific and
North American Plates. The Pacific Plate is being subducted along the
margin, and as it does so it passes under the southern part of the
Kamchatka Peninsula, and as it does so is partially melted by the
friction and the heat of the Earth's interior. Some of the melted
material then rises through the overlying Okhotsk Plate as magma and
fueling the volcanoes of southern Kamchatka.
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