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These images show ash clouds emanating from the Shiveluch Volcano in Kamchatka, Russia in early July 2025.

The Kamchatkan Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT) reported continuing eruptive activity at Sheveluch’s “300 years of RAS” dome on the SW flank of Old Sheveluch and at the Young Sheveluch dome during 11-17 July.

The high, isolated massif of Shiveluch volcano (also spelled Sheveluch) rises above the lowlands NNE of the Kliuchevskaya volcano group. The volcano is one of Kamchatka's largest and most active volcanic structures, with at least 60 large eruptions during the Holocene.

The summit of roughly 65,000-year-old Stary Shiveluch is truncated by a broad 9-km-wide late-Pleistocene caldera breached to the south. Many lava domes occur on its outer flanks.
On 30 July 2025, a megathrust earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale struck off the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula amid increased volcanic activity in the region.
Officials at Russia's Institute of Volcanology and Seismology have reported the ash clouds over Shiveluch on their Telegram channel (@IViS_DVO_RAN: https://t.me/IViS_DVO_RAN).