Kamchatka ashfall eclipsed the sun Shiveluch volcano eruption

On the morning of April 11, the Kamchatka volcano Shiveluch threw a column of ash to a height of 20 km. The soot cloud spread over a radius of 500 km. All this led to the fact that the locals, waking up for work, did not see the sun. At 8:00 local time (23:00 Moscow time on April 10), the street was pitch dark. As a result of the ash fall, the power supply was even interrupted in two settlements, but it was quickly restored. The volcano was assigned a red hazard code for aviation, so all intra-regional flights were postponed for a day. The head of the volcanic station in the village of Klyuchi, Yuri Demyanchuk, suggested that the eruption could have happened due to the earthquake that occurred in Kamchatka on April 3. Then the tremors in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and a number of other settlements of the region reached 6 points. By the way, scientists from the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences predicted the Shiveluch eruption a few months before