On the Kuril island of Paramushir, the Chikurachki volcano spewed ash up to 3 kilometers above sea level on the morning of September 21, the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Group (KVERT) of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported. The volcano has been assigned an orange aviation hazard code; the ash plume stretched 140 kilometers to the northeast and east.
The Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Group (KVERT) of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that on the morning of September 21, the Chikurachki volcano on the Kuril island of Paramushir, which belongs to the Northern Kurils of Sakhalin Oblast, spewed ash up to 3 km above sea level. The ash plume stretched 140 km to the northeast and east of the volcano.
The volcano has been assigned an orange aviation hazard code. KVERT warned that flights near Chikurachki are dangerous because ash emissions up to 6 km high may occur at any moment.
Chikurachki is an active complex stratovolcano with a summit crater. It is located at the northern end of the Karpinsky Range, 60 km south of Severo-Kurilsk; the volcano’s height is 1816 m, making it the highest point on Paramushir.
According to KVERT, explosive eruptions of Chikurachki continue intermittently, and the volcano is being monitored. The most powerful eruptions were recorded in 1853 and 1986; the latest steam-and-gas emissions with ash were noted in the summer of 2016, and activity resumed in 2022: in June 2022 and in February 2023, the ash column rose to 4.5 km.
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