4 volcanoes for the price of 1 in Kamchatka

We’ve finally made it to the weekend, so I thought I’d leave you with a shiny new image from the NASA Earth Observatory folks. The new ASTER image (below) captured today shows four volcanoes on the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia letting off steam and/or ash: Kizimen (furthest to the south with a thick, grey plume), Bezymianny (next north with a very wispy white plume), Kliuchevskoi (just north of Bezymianny, with a white plume) and Shiveluch (furthest north with a grey/tan plume). This isn’t an unique event for Kamchatka – we’re still 4 volcanoes erupting simultaneously before – but is still a cool thing to see. The NASA EO also had an image earlier this week of Kizimen by itself as well (top left).

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You can check out the details of all the activity in Kamchatka in this week’s USGS/Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program Weekly Volcanic Activity Report or the latest KVERT status update.

Enjoy the weekend (the last in February!)