Tsunami warning as Russian volcano erupts after 450 years
The Krasheninnikov volcano in Kamchatka became active days after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded hit the region.
Pictures released by Russian state media showed a plume of ash towering over the volcano, which last erupted in 1550, according to the US-based Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program.
Its eruption was accompanied by another, 7.0-magnitude, earthquake and a tsunami warning.
The Russian authorities said waves were possible in three areas of Kamchatka, telling residents via Telegram: 'The expected wave heights are low, but you must still move away from the shore.'
Russia's ministry for emergency services later lifted the tsunami warning.
The plume of ash was estimated to have reached an altitude of 19,700ft, Kamchatka's ministry of emergency situations said in a post on Telegram.
The ministry wrote: 'The plume is spreading eastward from the volcano toward the Pacific Ocean. There are no populated areas along its path, and no ashfall has been recorded in inhabited localities.'
The volcano had been assigned an 'orange' aviation hazard code, the ministry added, meaning flights in the area might be disrupted.
It came after nearby Klyuchevskoy, the tallest active volcano in Europe or Asia, erupted on Wednesday.
It is not unusual for Klyuchevskoy to erupt, with at least 18 occurring since 2000, according to the Global Volcanism Program.
Both volcanoes erupted after the 8.8-magnitude earthquake on on Wednesday, one of the strongest in history, led to tsunami warnings and the evacuation of millions from coastal areas from Japan, to Hawaii, to Ecuador.
The worst damage was seen in Russia, where a tsunami crashed through the port of Severo-Kurilsk and submerged a fish processing plant, officials said.
The quake's epicentre was off the coast of Petropavlovsk on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula.
It was the strongest worldwide since the magnitude 9.1 earthquake off the coast of Japan in 2011 that caused a tsunami killing more than 15,000 people.
New York hit by minor tremor
On Saturday night, a small earthquake rattled the New York metropolitan area. The US Geological Survey said it had a magnitude of 3.0.
The tremor hit in the New Jersey suburb of Hasbrouck Heights, less than 8 miles west of Central Park, at a depth of about 6.2 miles.
One resident of Brooklyn, the New York City borough, described it as a very brief tremor, just a slight swaying for a moment.
Nevertheless, social media quickly lit up with those who had felt it. The official account of the Empire State Building wrote on X, the social media platform: 'I am fine.'
The tremor was much milder than a 4.8-magnitude quake in 2024 that struck in Tewksbury, New Jersey, a little farther west of the city.
A 3.0 earthquake is typically not strong enough to cause any damage, but tremors that mild are rare in the north-east United States.
New York City's emergency management authority said there were no immediate reports of serious impacts.
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