VOLCANOES
OF SOUTH KAMCHATKA
| Opala volcano | |
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| Hazard synopsis | ||||||||
Principal
hazards are ash plumes, ash falls, pyroclastic
flows, and lahars from renew activity of the volcano. Ash falls possible at: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Yelizovo Paratunka |
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| Monitoring status | ||||||||
| Satellite monitoring. | ||||||||
| Form and structure | ||||||||
The
volcano is the cone-shaped stratovolcano in the caldera. The crater at the summit of the volcano is destroed. |
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| Volcanic activity | ||||||||
1776,
1827, 1854 - the explosive eruptions 1894 - fumarolic activity |
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| Location | ||||||||
Volcano
is located in the northern part of South-Kamchatkan zone, 70 km from
western coast of Kamchatka and 110 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. |
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| Composition | ||||||||
| From basalts to rhyolits | ||||||||
| Age | ||||||||
| Upper Pleistocene | ||||||||
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Holocene Volcanoes in Kamchatka. Opala volcano. |
