“According to the visual data of volcanologists from the city of Severo-Kurilsk (Paramushir Island), the height of the ash discharge was up to 2.5 km above sea level,” Interfax reports

The ash plume spread over five kilometers southeast of the volcano.

Ebeko has an orange color hazard code for aviation.

Earlier it was reported that the Klyuchevskoy volcano in Kamchatka threw a six-kilometer column of ash.