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Two adjacent volcanoes blew off nearly simultaneously on the Russian peninsula Kamchatka earlier this year. The freak incident was caught on camera by the European Space Agency's Envisat MERIS satellite on March 7. One of the volcanoes, Kliuchevskoi, is Kamchatka's highest, towering 4,835 meters. It's comparable in size to Washington's Mt. Rainier. The other volcano, Sheveluch, is 3282 meters high. Kamchatka is one of the world's most volcanically active regions. Some 60 volcanoes are located in the vicinity.