A powerful snowstorm battered Russia’s Far East Kamchatka Peninsula, bringing travel to a halt and triggering avalanche ...

The Shiveluch volcano erupted after a powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck off Russia's eastern coast on Saturday night. According to state-run media outlet TASS, the eruption sent a massive ...

This story appears in the August 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Kamchatka Peninsula, rugged and remote, is a vast blade of land stabbing southwestward through cold seas from the ...

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, January 12. /TASS/. A space object believed to be a meteor has been spotted in the sky over Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, videos of the object shooting across the night ...

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, January 10. /TASS/. A 5.0-magnitute earthquake occurred near a village in the Aleutsky district of Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, with its epicenter in the ...

Great Chilean Earthquake (Chile) – 9.5 magnitude This earthquake struck on May 22, 1960, and remains the strongest earthquake ever recorded. It led to widespread destruction and numerous deaths.

As relations between the US and Russia come under increased international focus, we explore a windswept, geologically tumultuous island whose history has been shaped by both nations. Situated ...

This story appears in the January 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. Some places on this planet are so wondrous, and so frangible, that maybe we just shouldn’t go there. Maybe we should ...

The Rossiya flight program (Aeroflot Group) opens from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in cooperation with the Far Eastern Aurora. Direct flights on the airline's planes between the ...

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia--One of Russia’s most active volcanoes erupted on the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula on Tuesday, shooting a vast cloud of ash far into the sky that smothered ...

Located in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, the Kuril islands stretch for 1,250 km from the southern tip of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula southwards to the Japanese island of Hokkaido, forming a ...

Mount Spurr, located about 75 miles West of Anchorage, has been acting up in recent weeks, prompting officials at the U.S. Geological Survey and Alaska Volcano Observatory to issue a yellow alert.