The eruption was accompanied by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and prompted a tsunami warning for three areas of Kamchatka. The tsunami warning was later lifted by Russia's Ministry for Emergency Services.

A volcano in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula erupted on Sunday for the first time in six centuries, authorities said, sending a massive ash plume eastwards towards the Pacific Ocean.

The eruption of the Krasheninnikov volcano on Sunday in Russia’s Far East came after a series of seismic events this past week on the Kamchatka peninsula.