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Mount Redoubt 1990

Mount Redoubt now
The Ring of Fire has been active in recent days, with significant earthquake and volcano events taking place in Alaska, Japan, and Russia. The Kamchatka Peninsula is a few hundred miles from Alaska (measurement depending on point-to-point).

Joining Alaska's Mount Redoubt Volcano in huffing and puffing, Klyuchevskaya Volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula released ash and steam plumes. NASA's Aqua satellite snapped this image.
In this image, gray-brown volcanic ash stains the snowy surface, especially east of the volcano. A fresh plume blows away from the volcano summit, toward the east-northeast, and casts a shadow on the land surface immediately north of the plume.
Klyuchevskaya (also Klyuchevskoy or Kliuchevskoi) is the highest volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, and ranks among the peninsula’s most active. It is a steep-sloped, symmetrical stratovolcano composed of alternating layers of hardened lava, solidified ash, and rocks left over from earlier eruptions. Since the late seventeenth century, eruptions have occurred mostly at the summit crater, but also from craters on the volcano’s flanks.
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