ACTIVE VOLCANOES OF KAMCHATKA AND NORTHERN KURILES

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Bezymianny volcano
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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 2012
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
1956, March 30
1956, April
1965, March 9-10
1977, March 25
1979, February 11
1979, September 17-18
1980, April 19
1981, June 12-13
1981, December 20
1982, June 10
1983, May 22
1984, February 16
1984, October 12-13
1985, June 29 – July 02
1986, June 24
1986, December 17
1989, August 02
1990, March 09
1992, March 11
1993, October 20-23
1995, October 05
1997, May 09
1997, December 05
1999, February 25
2000, March 14
2000, November 02
2001, August 06
2001, December 15
2002, December 25
2003, July 26
2004, January 13
2004, June 18
2005, January 11
2005, November 30
2006, May 09
2006, December 24
2007, May 11
2007, October 14-15
2007, November 06
2008, August 19
2009, December 16-17
2010, June 01
2011, April 13
2012, March 08

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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