The Klyuchevskoy eruption was hours after a huge earthquake early Wednesday triggered a tsunami that sent waves across the Pacific.

KLYUCHEVSKOY volcano in eastern Russia erupted just a day after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake jolted the Kamchatka Peninsula. The reports were first released by the Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Russia's Klyuchevskoy volcano, the largest active one in the northern hemisphere, erupted on Wednesday following a significant earthquake off the country's eastern coast. Lava is flowing down the western slope,