KVERT: ACTIVE VOLCANOES OF KAMCHATKA АND NORTHERN KURILES. Ksudach volcano

VOLCANOES OF SOUTH KAMCHATKA

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Ksudach volcano

SRTM perspective view with Landsat overlay
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 #	1000-05
Lat/Long	51°49'N, 157°32'E
Last eruption	1907
Elevation	1,079 m

Hazard synopsis

Hazards include phreatic explosions, ash clouds, ash falls, pyroclastic flows and surges, floods and lahars (especially in the Teplaya River that drains the volcano to the north).

Ash falls possible at:
Ozernovskiy (80 km to the southwest from the volcano)
Pauzhetka (60 km to the southwest)
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (150 km to the northeast)

Monitoring status

Satellite monitoring

Form and structure

Ksudach is a large lake-filled 18x22 km caldera with the young Stubel cone in the northern part.

Volcanic activity

1907, March 28-29 –- the large explosive eruption.

Location

The volcano is situated in the Southern Kamchatka volcanic belt in the series of volcanoes closest to the ocean.

Composition

From basalts to andesits

Age

Lower-Middle Pleistocene

Holocene Volcanoes in Kamchatka. Ksudach volcano.

Literature about Ksudach volcano.