Fields of Fire: Four Volcanoes Now Erupting Simultaneously in Kamchatka

Volcanic eruptions are hardly a rarity. It seems that a new one goes off every few weeks or so somewhere in the world. 

But a string of four volcanoes erupting in close proximity to one another is virtually unheard of. 

That, though, is what has taken place in recent weeks on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East. Four different cones and mountains, all within 180 kilometers (110 miles) of each other, have been active simultaneously since late November .... http://philosophers-stone.co.uk