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Eruption at Chikurachki

The volcano in the Kuril Islands spewed ash for the first time since 2008, prompting alerts to aircraft in the western Pacific.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Eruption at Chikurachki.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published February 19, 2015
Data acquired February 17, 2015