The Klyuchevskoy eruption was hours after a huge earthquake early Wednesday triggered a tsunami that sent waves across the Pacific.

Russia's Klyuchevskoy volcano, the largest active one in the northern hemisphere, erupted on Wednesday following a significant earthquake off the country's eastern coast. Lava is flowing down the western slope,

KLYUCHEVSKOY volcano in eastern Russia erupted just a day after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake jolted the Kamchatka Peninsula. The reports were first released by the Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.