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.

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.

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.