VOLCANOES
OF SOUTH KAMCHATKA
| Zheltovsky volcano | |
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| Hazard synopsis | ||||||||
Principal
hazards include phreatic explosions, ash clouds, ash falls, pyroclastic
flows, lava flows and lahars. Ash falls possible at: Ozernovskiy (57 km to the west from the volcano) Pauzhetka (35 km to the west) Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (185 km to the northeast) |
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| Monitoring status | ||||||||
| Satellite monitoring | ||||||||
| Form and structure | ||||||||
Zheltovsky
is a twinned stratovolcano with a somma and an extrusive dome at
the summit. The lover part of the structure is mainly of lavas, the upper part of alternating lavas and pyroclastics in equal proportions. |
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| Volcanic activity | ||||||||
1823
(?) 1923 (February, an explosive-effusive eruption) 1972 -1973 (fumarolic activity) |
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| Location | ||||||||
The
volcano is located in the Southern volcanic belt of Kamchatka, about
16 km northeast of Kurilskoye Lake. |
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| Composition | ||||||||
| From basalts to rhyolites | ||||||||
| Age | ||||||||
| Upper Pleistocene – Holocene | ||||||||
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Holocene Volcanoes in Kamchatka. Zheltovsky volcano. |
