VOLCANOES OF NORTH KAMCHATKA
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Bezymianny volcano
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SRTM perspective view with Landsat overlay
Image Data: Landsat 7 ETM+ (bands 3, 2 ,1)
Original Data Resolution: SRTM 3 arcsecond
(90 meters), Landsat 30 meters.
Processing by Dmitry Melnikov.
IAVCEI #
1000-25
Lat/Long 55°58'N, 160°36'E
Last eruption 2009
Volcano edifice 2,882 m
 
Hazard synopsis
Moderate potential hazards are caused by ash plumes, ash falls, pyroclastic flows, hot avalanches and lahars.

The volcano constitutes a potential hazard to international and local airlines at Kamchatka because its eruptive clouds can rise to a height of 8-15 km ASL and extend for hundreds of kilometers from the volcano to different directions.

Ash falls possible at:
Klyuchi (40 km to the north-northeast from the volcano)
Kozyrevsk (47 km to the west-northwest)
Ust’-Kamchatsk (125 km to the north-east)
Ust’-Khairyuzovo (290 km to the north-west)
Ichinsky (315 km to the west-southwest)

Monitoring status
Seismic, visual, satellite monitoring, web video camera.
Form and structure
A complex massif: inside the explosive caldera 1956 in diameter 1.3x2.8 km, opened to the east, proceeds a growth of the lava dome Novy (New).
Volcanic activity

1955, October 22 - Awakening of the volcano after thousand-year silence. Explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 10 km ASL, ash falls to the south-east, north, north-west, and north-east from the volcano.
1956, March 30 – large catastrophic eruption of the volcano: eruptive column up to 45 km ASL; ash falls to the north-east from the volcano; deposits of directed blasts, avalanches, pyroclastic flows, lahars. VEI- 4.
1956, April – present time – a growth of the lava dome Novy inside the explosive caldera 1956.
1956 – 1965 – extrusive-explosive eruption of the volcano.
1965, March 9-10 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 10 km ASL, ash falls to the north-east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
1977, March 25 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 10 km ASL, ash falls to the north-east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
1979, February 11 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 10 km ASL, ash falls to the north-east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
1979, September 17-18 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 8 km ASL, pyroclastic flows.
1980, April 19 – explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 8-9 km ASL, pyroclastic flows.
1981, June 12-13 – explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 8-9 km ASL, ash falls to the north-east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
1981, December 20 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 8-9 km ASL, ash falls to the north from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
1982, June 10 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 8-9 km ASL, ash falls to the east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
1983, May 22 - explosive eruption: ash falls to the east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
1984, February 16 - explosive eruption: ash falls to the west from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
1984, October 12-13 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 10 km ASL, ash falls to the north-east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows and surges.
1985, June 29 – July 02 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 10-15 km ASL, ash falls to the south-east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows and surges.
1986, June 24 - explosive eruption: ash falls to the south from the volcano, pyroclastic flows and surges.
1986, December 17 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 10 km ASL, ash falls to the south-southeast from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
1989, August 02 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 5-6 km ASL, ash falls to the north-west from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
1990, March 09 – explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 8-10 km ASL, ash falls, pyroclastic flows.
1992, March 11 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 5 km ASL, ash falls to the west from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
1993, October 20-23 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 8-12 km ASL, ash falls to the south-east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
1995, October 05 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 10 km ASL, ash falls to the north-east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
1997, May 09 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 13.5 km ASL, ash falls to the east- north-east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows and surges.
1997, December 05 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 10 km ASL, ash falls to the north-east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
1999, February 25 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 8 km ASL, ash falls to the south-east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
2000, March 14 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 8 km ASL, ash falls to the west-north-west from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
2000, November 02 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 6.5 km ASL, ash falls to the south-west from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
2001, August 06 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 10 km ASL, ash falls to the south-south-east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
2001, December 15 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 4-5 km ASL, ash falls to the north-west from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
2002, December 25 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 6-8 km ASL, ash falls to the west from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
2003, July 26 – explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 8-11 km ASL, ash falls to the west from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
2004, January 13 – explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 6-8 km ASL, ash falls to the north-east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
2004, June 18 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 8-10 km ASL, ash falls to the north-east and later south-east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
2005, January 11 – explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 8-10 km ASL, ash falls to the west-south-west from the volcano, pyroclastic flows and surges.
2005, November 30 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 6 km ASL, ash falls to the west-south-west from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
2006, May 09 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 15 km ASL, ash falls to the east-northeast from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
2006, December 24 - explosive eruption: eruptive column up to 13-15 km ASL, ash falls to the north-east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
2007, May 11 - explosive eruption: ash falls to the north, north-east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
2007, October 14-15 - explosive eruption: ash falls to the south-east from the volcano, pyroclastic flows.
2007, November 06 - explosive eruption: ash falls, pyroclastic flows.
2008, August 19 - explosive eruption: ash falls to the south-west from the volcano.
2009, December 16-17 - explosive eruption: ash falls to the west from the volcano.

KVERT information releases.

State of Activity Kamchatkan Volcanoes.

Location
The volcano is located in the center of Klyuchevskaya group volcanoes of the Kamchatka, at a distance of 40 km from Klyuchi and of 350 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Composition
Andesites predominant, besides dacites, andesibasalts and basalts.
Age
About 10000-11000 – Pra-Bezymianny volcano.
About 5500 – Bezymianny volcano.
 

Holocene Volcanoes in Kamchatka. Bezymianny volcano.

Literature about Bezymianny volcano.

The important dates of Volcanology. 50 years from the day of
         activity renewal after thousand-year silence.


Alexander I. Malyshev "The Life of the Volcano".


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