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This handout image obtained courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory taken on June 22, 2019, shows Raikoke volcano erupting in the Kuril Islands in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region, near the Kamchatka Peninsula. - Unlike some of its perpetually active neighbors on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Raikoke Volcano on the Kuril Islands rarely erupts. The small, oval-shaped island most recently exploded in 1924 and in 1778. The dormant period ended around 4:00 a.m. local time on June 22, 2019, when a vast plume of ash and volcanic gases shot up from its 700-meter-wide crater. (Photo by Joshua Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory/AFP Photo)
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