This is reported by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Sakhalin Region on the official website. 

“Information that on the afternoon of July 3 an ash emission to a height of 2 kilometers was observed on the Ebeko volcano was received by the Crisis Management Center of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia from the Sakhalin Volcanic Eruption Response Team.

The plume spread to the south, ”the ministry said in a statement.

On July 2, an earthquake of magnitude 5.9 was recorded north of the Japanese island of Hokkaido.

The epicenter of the disaster was located in the La Perouse Strait between Hokkaido and Sakhalin.