UPI.com - 1/07/13
Plosky Tolbachik on December 9, 2012.
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- The ongoing eruption of the Plosky Tolbachik volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia has sent gas and ashes almost 2-1/2 miles into the sky, officials say.
The plume of vapor and gas with a high gas content has stretched for 12 miles northeast of the volcano, the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported Monday.
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