Local people began evacuating people. According to Radio New Zealand, at the moment about 600 inhabitants of the island have already been taken to neighboring islands.

Smoke above the volcano appeared on Friday afternoon, and by Sunday its activity intensified. In this regard, the local authorities decided to evacuate all residents of Kadovar.

Local aviation estimates the situation as "critical", since 50% of a small island is covered with lava. Numerous nearby islands were covered with ashes, and clouds of smoke and dust extend many kilometers from Kadovar. Research Observatory "Rabol" urged ships to stay away from the island.

Recall, On an island two kilometers wide, towers the volcano Kadovar, whose height is 365 meters. He was inactive for 40 years.

As reported URA-Inform, in Kamchatka on the night of Friday, January 5, Klyuchevskaya volcano threw a column of ash. A plume of ash from him stretched for more than 90 kilometers. As the report Kamchatka group of observation of volcanic eruptions, at the moment the volcano continues to throw off steam with gas mixed with ash to a height of up to 5.5 kilometers above sea level. The steam and gas train with ashes stretched for 92 kilometers to the west-northwest of the volcano.