VOLCANOES
OF NORTHERN KURILES
| Karpinsky volcano | |
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| Hazard synopsis | ||||||||
Potential hazards are caused by ash plumes, ash falls, lava flows. Ash falls possible at: |
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| Monitoring status | ||||||||
| Satellite monitoring | ||||||||
| Form and structure | ||||||||
The
caldera with diameter up to 5 km and depth up to 700 m. There is
an explosive crater with lots of solfataras near the eastern flank
inside the caldera (on the height 1,100-1,200 m ASL). On the outside
eastern flank there is a second active crater with small cone and
solfataras activity. |
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| Volcanic activity | ||||||||
| 1952 - a single
weak explosion 1946, 1953, 1973, 2004 - solfatara activity |
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| Location | ||||||||
Volcano
is located on the Paramushir Island, 80 km to the south-west from Severo-Kurilsk, in the southern part of Karpinsky ridge. |
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| Composition | ||||||||
| Andesits | ||||||||
| Age | ||||||||
| Upper Pleistocene-Holocene |
