{"id":824,"date":"2024-08-18T03:01:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T03:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/volcano-erupts-in-russia-after-7-0-magnitude-earthquake-sending-ash-column-5-miles-high\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T03:01:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T03:01:20","slug":"volcano-erupts-in-russia-after-7-0-magnitude-earthquake-sending-ash-column-5-miles-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/volcano-erupts-in-russia-after-7-0-magnitude-earthquake-sending-ash-column-5-miles-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Volcano erupts in Russia after 7.0-magnitude earthquake, sending ash column 5 miles high"},"content":{"rendered":"

A volcano has erupted following a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck off Russia\u2019s east coast, spurting a column of ash miles into the air, according to state-run media. <\/p>\n

The Shiveluch volcano is around 280 miles from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a coastal city with a population of about 180,000 that lies in Russia\u2019s eastern region of Kamchatka. <\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to visual evaluations, the ash column is rising as high as 8 kilometers (5 miles) above the sea level,\u201d TASS reported Sunday morning local time, adding the volcano had released a gush of lava. <\/p>\n

There are no reports of people injured, TASS said. <\/p>\n

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According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the quake\u2019s epicenter was about 55 miles from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and had a depth of about 30 miles. <\/p>\n

No \u201cmajor damage\u201d was caused by the quake, TASS reported, however, \u201cbuildings are now being examined for potential damage, with special attention paid to social facilities.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Russian Emergencies Ministry did not issue a tsunami warning due to the tremor, TASS reported. <\/p>\n

Earlier, the US Tsunami Warning System had warned that \u201chazardous tsunami waves from this earthquake are possible within 300km [approx 186 miles] of the epicenter along the coasts of Russia.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A volcano has erupted following a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck off Russia\u2019s east coast, spurting a column of ash miles into the air, according to state-run media. The Shiveluch volcano is around 280 miles from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a coastal city with a population of about 180,000 that lies in Russia\u2019s eastern region of Kamchatka. \u201cAccording to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}