Aerial Panoramas Capture Four Kamchatkan Volcanoes Erupting Simultaneously
Leaping Lava Plosky Tolbachik, a Russian volcano that began erupting in November after four dormant decades, is part of one of the most active volcanic regions in the Ring of Fire. AirPanoPut some fire and ice into your day. It's not rare for volcanoes to erupt on Kamchatka, the far-eastern Russian peninsula that juts out into the Pacific Ocean. The density of active volcanoes there is so outstanding UNESCO made it a World Heritage Site. Since late November, though, four different volcanoes within 110 miles of each other on Kamchatka have been active simultaneously. Experts believe the volcanoes are fed by different sources of magma, making this even more unusual. In mid-January, eruptions from Plosky Tolbachik, one of the volcanoes, began forming a lava lake on the peninsula at its base. AirPano, a group of Russian panoramic photographers, set out to document the geological excitement in 3-D aerial panoramas....