ИСТИНА

There are 36 active volcanoes in the Kamchatka and North Kurile, and several of them are continuously active. In 2016, five of the Kamchatkan volcanoes (Sheveluch, Klyuchevskoy, Bezymianny, Karymsky and Zhupanovsky) and three volcanoes of North Kurile (Alaid, Ebeko and Chikurachki) had strong and moderate explosive eruptions. Moderate gas-steam activity was observing of Kizimen, Avachinsky, Koryaksky, Gorely, Mutnovsky and other volcanoes. Strong explosive eruptions of volcanoes are the most dangerous for aircraft because they can produce in a few hours or days to the atmosphere and the stratosphere till several cubic kilometers of volcanic ash and aerosols. Ash plumes and the clouds, depending on the power of the eruption, the strength and wind speed, can travel thousands of kilometers from the volcano for several days, remaining hazardous to aircraft, as the melting temperature of small particles of ash below the operating temperature of jet engines.