Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Services lifted a Tsunami warning for the Kamchatka Peninsula on Sunday after an earthquake of 7.0 hit the nearby Kuril Islands.
The ministry had previously said in the telegram messaging application that the expected waves were low, but warned people to move away from the shore.
The Pacific Tsunami warning system, which described the earthquake at 7.0, said, however, there was no Tsunami warning after the earthquake. The United States geological service also said that the earthquake was in a magnitude of 7.
During the night, the Kraheninnikov volcano in Kamchatka exploded for the first time in 600 years, the agency and news scientists of the state of Ria de Russia reported Sunday.
Both incidents could be connected to the huge earthquake that shook the distant East of Russia last week, which triggered Tsunami warnings as far as French Polynesia and Chile, and was followed by an eruption of Klyuchevskoy, the most active volcano of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
The Kuril Islands extend from the southern end of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Russian scientists had warned Wednesday that they were possible strong replicas in the region in the coming weeks.
“This is the first historically confirmed eruption of the Kraheninnikov volcano in 600 years,” said Ria Olga Girina, director of the Kamchatka volcanic eruption response team.
In the telegram channel of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Girina said that the last spill of kraninnikov lava took place within 40 years of 1463, and that no eruption has been known.
The Kamchatka branch of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Services said that an ash plume has registered that increases to 6,000 meters (3.7 miles) after the eruption of the volcano. The volcano itself is in 1,856 meters.
“The ash cloud has diverted east, towards the Pacific Ocean. There are no populated areas along its way,” said the Ministry on Telegram.
The eruption of the volcano has been assigned an orange aviation code, indicating a high risk for aircraft, the ministry said.
