Double volcanic eruption in Eastern Russia

[Jacques van Oene]

Acquired from orbit 800 kilometres away, this Envisat image shows two
volcanoes erupting simultaneously on Russia's snowy Kamchatka Peninsula this
week.

Located in the Russian Far East, the Kamchatka Peninsula is a landscape
covered with volcanoes, part of the Pacific 'Ring of Fire'. Two
stratovolcanoes, Kliuchevskoi and Shiveluch are currently erupting
simultaneously.

Read more:
http://www.esa.int/export/esaEO/SEMUVXO256E_index_0.html

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Jacques :-)

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