ACTIVE VOLCANOES OF KAMCHATKA AND NORTHERN KURILES
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Gorely 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 #
1000-07
Lat/Long 52°33'N, 158°02'E
Last eruption 1986
Elevation 1,828 m
 
Hazard synopsis
Gorely is one of the most active volcanoes of the Southern Kamchatka. Principal hazards are ash plumes, ash falls, phreatic blasts and lahars.

Ash falls possible at:
Paratunka (45 km to the north from the volcano)
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (70 km to the northeast)
Yelizovo (70 km to the north)
Monitoring status
Seismic, visual, satellite monitoring, web video camera
Form and structure
The present structure of the volcano occupies the central part of the caldera (13x12 km) and comprises three merged cones that stretch in a ridge of the west-north-west-wards. There are 11 superimposed craters at the summit. And about 40 adventive vents with lava flows on the slopes.
Volcanic activity
1828
1832
1855
1869
1929
1930
1931
1932
1947
1961
1980-1981
1984-1986
Phreatic and phreato-magmatic eruptions with VEI 2 or 3 are typical of the volcano.
Location
The volcano is located in Southern Kamchatka, about 70 km to the southwest from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Composition
Andesits and andesibasalts
Age
Upper Pleistocene

Literature about Gorely volcano


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