VOLCANOES
OF CENTER KAMCHATKA
| Karymsky volcano | |
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| Hazard synopsis | ||||||||||
Principal
hazards are ash plumes, ash falls, lava and pyroclastic flows, hot
avalanches. The volcanically dangerous zone threatened by lava and
pyroclastic flows and hot avalanches will be limited to the caldera.
A height of eruptive columns can reach 10 km ASL but ash plumes are
rising, mainly, up to 2.5-3 km ASL. Activity of the volcano represents danger basically for local airlines. Ash falls possible at settlements: Milkovo (90 km to the north-west from the volcano) Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (115 km to the south-south-east) |
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| Monitoring status | ||||||||||
| Seismic, satellite monitoring | ||||||||||
| Form and structure | ||||||||||
The
stratovolcano (a regular cone with two small summit craters) is located
into caldera’s central part. |
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| Location | ||||||||||
The
volcano is located into the caldera by diameter 5 km, in the central
part of the Eastern volcanic zone of Kamchatka, at a distance of
115 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. |
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| Composition | ||||||||||
| Andesites, andesite-dacites, dacites | ||||||||||
| Age | ||||||||||
| 5,300 years | ||||||||||
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 Literature about Karymsky volcano. |
