which is near the possible hypocenter of a megaquake that could strike the Japan Trench. The report also noted that 18 hours after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake hit off Etorofu island in the Kuril ...

One of Russia’s most active volcanoes has erupted, spewing plumes of ash 5 kilometers (3 miles) into the sky over the far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula ... located on Kuril Islands also spewed ...

Russia’s defense ministry has said it has deployed mobile coastal defense missile systems on a northern Kuril island--part ... between Japan and the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula.

The lava dome of "Young Shiveluch" is 2,500 meters high. The volcano is located at the intersection of the Kuril-Kamchatka and Aleutian island arcs at a distance of 50 km from the village of ...