Cool webcam of Kamchatka eruption in progress

Wow!

pretty

Cool!

Awesome picture, thanks for sharing:)

hmmm, where is Kamchatka?

far eastern shore of russia, up north, peninsula.

about the worst place to be deported to.

its all black now, tho - the webcam - no glow of lava, just a black square!

that alone is kinda interesting. there's not a spot in holland that would simply be black if you pointed a webcam at it at night.

A page about Kamchatka, with lots of photos, maps, and it looks like they got one or two mp3s of the song Kamchatka as well, by the legendary Soviet-era rock group Kino (whose singer Viktor Tsoi in stature became something like Russia's Jim Morrison, especially after his early death - altho their music in comparison sounds quite sprightly and poppy.)

Oh, and I was wrong about being deported to Kamchatka - not even the Gulag extended that far out, or hardly. It got to the island of Sakhalin and more poignantly, to Magadan and the Kolyma, across the straits from Kamchatka, but not actually to Kamchatka itself, apparently.

Edit: altho this page on the Milkovo district in Central-Kamchatka (temperature in summer +36C , in winter -54 C), notes that "GULAG camps were built there [..] in 1930th after the beginning of the active wood cutting".

nimh - in yesterday's early morning (here) photo there was what looked like a small, glowing ember (red) where the ash plume was in the daytime pics. I'm surprised the pictures are refreshing here, without having to click on the webcam url.

I wish I'd thought to save the daytime photo of the Kamchatka volcano with the bird in it.

I saw what I thought was an ash plume in the Blue Mts. of Jamaica while on approach to the airport there last week. Musta been a fire (lol) since I checked when I got home and there are no volcanos there.

Here's a good website for webcams of lots of volcanos.

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/