Specialists recorded an ash ejection on Friday at the volcano Ebeko on the Kuril island of Paramushir, the press service of the regional head of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.

"On the morning of August 26, the crisis management center of Russia's Emergency Situations Department received information from the Sakhalin Volcanic Eruption Operational Response Team of the IMGiG DVO RAN that an ash eruption to a height of 2.6 kilometers above sea level had occurred on Ebeko volcano. The plume spread in a northeasterly direction for a distance of up to 5 kilometers," reads the report.

According to dispatchers, no ash fall was observed in Severo-Kurilsk, no smell of hydrogen sulfide was felt. There is no threat to the life of the population.

Ebeko volcano 1156 meters high is located on the Paramushir island seven kilometers north-west from Severo-Kurilsk in northern part of Vernadsky ridge.

Regular emissions (weak to moderate) at Ebeko have continued since October 20, 2016, which is normal activity for the volcano. A record emission was recorded on August 31, 2018. Then a column of smoke rose to a height of six kilometers from a new vent of the volcano, formed in 2017.