VOLCANOES
OF CENTER KAMCHATKA
| Krasheninnikov volcano | |
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| Hazard synopsis | |||||||||||||||||
Potential
hazards are ash plumes, ash falls, pyroclastic and lava flows and
lahars. Possible lateral eruptions can also take place on the volcanic
slopes or at the southern part of caldera. |
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| Monitoring status | |||||||||||||||||
| Satellite monitoring | |||||||||||||||||
| Form and structure | |||||||||||||||||
The
complex volcanic edifice consisting of two merged cones is in ancient
collapsed caldera about 9 km in diameter. Northern cone has telescopic
structure - in the center caldera about 2 km in diameter are located
two cones enclosed each other. Height of least of them - 150 m, diameter
of its crater - 60 m. |
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| Volcanic activity | |||||||||||||||||
| The last lava effusion took place 400-600 years ago. No historic eruption is known. In 1963 traces of fumarolic activity were registered in the crater of the middle Northern cone. | |||||||||||||||||
| Location | |||||||||||||||||
The
volcano is associated with the Eastern volcanic belt and is located
about 13 km south of Kronotsky lake, in 200 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. |
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| Composition | |||||||||||||||||
| Basalts, andesites-basalts, andesites, dacites | |||||||||||||||||
| Age | |||||||||||||||||
| 11,000 years | |||||||||||||||||
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Holocene Volcanoes in Kamchatka. Krasheninnikov volcano. |
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