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2019-06-26T03:12:30.673Z
Marina Chibisova, a senior researcher at the laboratory of volcanology and volcanic risk at the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told RIA Novosti that the eruption of the Raikok volcano on the eponymous Kuril island resulted in the death of flora and fauna in the region.
“The flora and fauna of the island, which was restored after the last eruption of Raikoke in 1924, was destroyed by pyroclastic flows and ash falls,” she said.
According to the agency, the eruption lasted more than 12 hours, the ash rose to a height of 13 km.
Earlier it was reported that in the Kuril Islands there was an eruption of the volcano Raikkok after almost a century of calm.
Experts counted nine volcanic explosions.
Source: russiart
