Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula is a land of superlatives. It is one of the most volcanologically active regions on Earth. It has the world's densest population of brown bears. Next to Yellowstone ...

Shiveluch, one of the most active volcanoes on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, erupted on Thursday evening, sending ash clouds up to 15 kilometers into the sky and blanketing large areas with dust.

the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences told TASS. "The Shiveluch volcano in Kamchatka threw out ash 11 km above sea level.

This story appears in the August 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Kamchatka Peninsula, rugged and remote, is a vast blade of land stabbing southwestward through cold seas from the ...

The earthquake, which was measured as severe on the Richter scale, hit near the East Coast of Kamchatka peninsula in the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday at 12.40 am, as per the Indian time.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, October 22. /TASS/. The eruption of the Bezymyanny volcano on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula began at 08:22 local time (23:22 Moscow time on Wednesday), a spokesman for the ...