TASS/. A 5.0-magnitute earthquake occurred near a village in the Aleutsky district of Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, with its epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, a local branch of the ...

From the mouth of the Bolshaya, on Kamchatka's west coast, it must enter the bigger world of the Sea of Okhotsk, a frigid but nourishing body of water between the peninsula and mainland Russia.

The Shiveluch volcano (3,283m) is the northernmost active volcano in the Eastern Range on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The nearest settlement, Klyuchi, is located in 47 kilometers from the volcano.