Moderate potential hazards could cause by ash plumes, ash falls, pyroclastic flows, hot avalanches and lahars.

The volcano can constitute a potential hazard to international and local airlines at Kamchatka.

Complex Stratovolcano. Its western slope destroyed by directed blasts.

~ 2400 BP – last eruption
~ 8500 BP – catastrophic eruption with directed blasts

Volcano is located on the Eastern coast, 7 km northwest from Uzon caldera, 25 km southwest from Kronotskoe Lake, 180 km northeast from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.