ANOTHER ONE!!! IVAN VOLCANO!!! Ivan the Terrible Volcano, located on the island Iturup Kuril Archipelago (Pacific Ocean), today began ejecting ash, according to the Ministry for Emergency Situations of Russia.

"We have received information that at 18.55 local time began spewing ash" Ivan the Terrible volcano, the statement said Emergency department management of the island of Sakhalin, the Kuril belonging.

In one of the communities adjacent to the city of Kurilsk, which is located about 25 kilometers from the volcano, we have detected a two-millimeter layer of ash.

"There is no threat to the population," the statement said, adding that no details about a possible eruption of 1,159 meters.

In August 2012 Ivan the Terrible and spewed ash and, unlike today, in the nearby town perceived the smell of hydrogen sulphide discharged by the volcano.

Previous eruptions of the mountain in 1968, 1973 and 1989 did not cause damage to the island, whose sovereignty is also claimed by Japan.

The Kuriles, where only several thousand people live in mostly military-and their families-are part of the volcanic chain that extends to the Kamchatka Peninsula, the most seismically active area of Russia and encompassing 12% of the activity volcanic world.

EFE [link to www.rpp.com.pe]