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Volcano shock: Eruptions creating purple skies - stunning images!

VOLCANIC eruptions are turning sunsets purple and creating mesmerising skies across the globe, researchers have revealed...

Two major eruptions this summer have caused a stunning atmospheric reaction which have left the sunsets looking purple in certain quarters of the globe. The first of two eruptions came on July 22 when the Raikoke volcano, located in the Kuril Islands in Russia’s Sakhalin Oblast region, erupted. The volcano, which had remained dormant for more than a century before the latest explosion, blasted a mass of ash and volcanic debris ten miles into the sky, reaching a layer of the atmosphere known as the stratosphere...

Just under two weeks later, the Ulawun volcano in New Guinea erupted, sending ash nine miles into the sky and causing 15,000 people to evacuate...

Sulfuric gas from both of these eruptions reached the stratosphere, which is why skies in some parts of the world turned oddly purple as the Sun started to set...

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More in the article linked including some stunning pics and an aerial view vid of the Raikoke Volcano...

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