Lava Fountains and Lava Flows from Russia's Kliuchevskoi

Kliuchevskjoi (bottom) and Shiveluch (top), both producing small ash plumes. Kliuchevksoi also shows lava flow activity on its northeastern flank as evidence in the thermal anomaly (red box) in this Terra image taken September 28, 2013. Image: NASA Earth Observatory. Now that the shutdown is finally over, we can look forward to new images from the NASA Earth Observatory. I had originally started this post to fill in some of the time that we've been without the EO, but even now, I'm sure the backlog of imagery is impressive.Thankfully, we'll also be getting the first new Global Volcanism ProgramWeekly Volcanic Activity Report next week, so the trickle of information will widen quickly. This news comes out of far eastern Russia, where Kliuchevskoi has now become the most vigorously active volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula over the last few weeks. The activity appears to be mainly lava fountains (see below) and ...