| Alaid volcano | |
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| Hazard synopsis | |||||||||
Potential
hazards are caused by ash plumes, ash falls, lava and pyroclastic
flows, and lahars. Ash falls possible at: |
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| Monitoring status | |||||||||
| Seismic, satellite monitoring | |||||||||
| Form and structure | |||||||||
The
stratovolcano belongs to the Somma-Vesuvius type. The central scoria
cone with the height of 250 m is situated inside summit crater. There
are 33 lateral cones on the flanks of the volcano. |
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| Volcanic activity | |||||||||
| The types of eruptions are
strombolian, vulcanian, subplinian
1793 - an eruption from the summit crater |
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| Location | |||||||||
The
volcano-Island, the most northern in the Kurile archipelago, is situated
at a distance 30 km north-west from Paramushir and 70 km south-west
from Kamchatka |
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| Composition | |||||||||
| Basalts | |||||||||
| Age | |||||||||
| 40,000-50,000 years |
