VOLCANOES
OF SOUTH KAMCHATKA
| Mutnovsky volcano | |
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| Hazard synopsis | |||||||||||
Mutnovsky is one of the most active volcanoes of the southern Kamchatkan. Principal hazards are ash plumes, ash falls, and lahars. Ash falls possible at: |
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| Monitoring status | |||||||||||
| Seismic, visual and satellite monitoring | |||||||||||
| Form and structure | |||||||||||
The
volcano is a volcanic complex consisting of four overlapping stratovolcanoes
capped by a number of summit craters up to 1.3 km wide. The most
of the active vents is on the southwestern slopes. |
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| Volcanic activity | |||||||||||
Holocene activity of the
volcano has been characterized by the small to moderate phreatic
and phreatomagmatic eruptions. |
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| Location | |||||||||||
The
volcano is located in Southern Kamchatka, about 70 km to the southwest
from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky |
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| Composition | |||||||||||
| From basalts to rhyodacites | |||||||||||
| Age | |||||||||||
| Middle Pleistocene |
