A repost from 2016, written by Henrik and part of our series on volcanoes of the American west. There is enough there to make any nation proud! This follows on from the post on Mount Shasta and on ...

On November 5, a M9.0 earthquake hit the area from Kamchatka to Sakhalin. It caused a devastating tsunami. Over 2000 people were killed in the fishing town of Severo Kurilsk, on one of the islands ...