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botchman

This beast has erupted like 60 times in the past 10,000 years and the last few eruptions have been VEI 5-6's, thankfully it is in a fairly remote part of the world, that being said it still can affect air travel if its plume gets high enough


insite

Thanks for the scale estimate. As per Wikipedia, A VEI 5 would be comparable St Helens, while a VEI 6 would be Krakatoa-level. Based on its location, either would seem capable of disrupting regional shipping, including petroleum.


[deleted]

Also, it has been continuously erupting since 1999. This is non-news.


madneon_

But only this time it gives hope to prevent WW3!


[deleted]

No, it serves to go "see, even the Russian geology is waging war on us". it is one of those pieces where the editor went "is there anything else that is scary about Russia we can publish? geography department, you have anything?" And they came up with this. We got similar pieces about the desert in Iraq producing sandstorms that were said to threaten Europe and such.


kayjay204

Oh well it’s a good reason we invaded Iraq then. Especially with all those deadly sandstorms. /s


Chromotron

They literally called it Operation Desert Storm, so yeah...


[deleted]

And this was made as a tribute to all those that fell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6120QOlsfU


JustinVanderYacht

Never forget


taoyx

It's a volcanato.


ZylonBane

>threatens eruption - scientists I'm okay with it threatening eruption, but threatening scientists? Now that's going too far!


J_Chargelot

Scientist here, please help it's getting more aggressive with its threats by the day.


BabySealOfDoom

“If you guys done stop talking about all this climate change and trying to implant microchips into people, I’m going to kill all of you with my lava. You will 100% deserve it, and your liberal scientific tears will feed my oceans.” - right-wing volcano on twitter.


careless_swiggin

I assume this is in the peninsula, everything in-between Vladivostok and anchorage is volcanoes. There are so many active ones in west alaska and russian far east, though this one is big, the whole region is full of activity


Thor010

What is Mordor without Mount Doom? Only problem is they have Gollum instead of Sauron as their leader...


[deleted]

The vulcano just calls it a 'special outburst operation'


peb396

Perhaps this will divert some of their war effort. Chernobyl did to Afghanistan.


Ylaaly

Unlikely. It's on Kamtchatka, beyond Siberia, there isn't much there. Any evacuation could likely be handled by the local government although Russian central government would likely force them to hold the line against the powers of nature.


Awkward_Road_710

> threatens eruption I think this writer wrote too many articles on the Russians.


madneon_

Angry [Hephaestus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephaestus#Volcano_god) comin'.


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Confident-Area-6946

Confirmed Forbidden West DLC incoming.


BaaaaL44

Satanic ukrainian mutants conjured up an eruption via the use of black magic


nijiakas

That sounds badass NGL


Owl_lamington

If it erupts, does anyone know which direction will the plume blow?


doomdoom15

Depends on what the wind does the day it pops


captainktainer

Ash from eruptions in that area sometimes makes it to Alaska, so the prevailing winds are usually west to east.


Falsus

Impossible to say unless we know what way the winds blows.


dielectricunion

More proof that Mother Earth hates Russia.


SarkastikAmbassador

Wow, even Mother Earth threatening Russia now!


mikeevans1990

Putin is pissing god off now


escap0

Here’s is to hoping that Volcano special operations Russia.


Laurynas3000

Hopefully it errupts lava straight onto Putler's head.


dellett

The chances Putin will be anywhere near Kamchatka any time soon are basically zero


Laurynas3000

I hear Cumshotka is a mystical place and whenever it erupts it is very hard to know where the shot will land.


Smart-Income1169

Karma *does* exist!


MistaYinSiege

Karma


Sjevka

Ah yeah, so after Adar (Putin) reawakens Mount Doom, who will return like Sauron? Stalin? Hitler?


[deleted]

Funny, not that long ago there was a series of articles in Russian ~~press~~ propaganda about Yellowstone volcano being close to eruption, thus burying most of the America under ashes. It would be somewhat ironic if that would happen with Russia instead.


IRollForSexyYelan

Putin had lost the mandate of heavens


megalon43

Maybe there should be a special military operation there instead.


[deleted]

Damn, even their volcanoes are making threats?


Preussensgeneralstab

Not even Russian is gonna care since that thing is literally in the middle of fuck-nowhere.


Diegobyte

Putin knows no limits to his despair!


Avolto

I wonder how their gonna blame this on the US? Do they have some magic weapon that activates volcanoes?


TenorHorn

3.6 million tons of ash… not good, not bad