Karymsky Volcano
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| Location | ||||||||||
The volcano is located in the central part of the Eastern volcanic zone of Kamchatka, at a distance of 115 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
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| Form and structure | ||||||||||
The stratovolcano (a regular cone with summit crater) is located into caldera’s central part. |
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| Composition | ||||||||||
| Andesites, andesidacites, dacites | ||||||||||
| Age | ||||||||||
| 6,100 years | ||||||||||
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| Aviation color code |
ORANGE |
| Last VONA/KVERT Releases |
| Hazard synopsis |
Principal hazards are ash plumes, ash falls, lava and pyroclastic flows, hot avalanches. The volcanically dangerous zone threatened by lava and pyroclastic flows and hot avalanches will be limited to the caldera. A height of eruptive columns can reach 10 km a.s.l. but ash plumes are rising, mainly, up to 2.5-3 km a.s.l.
Activity of the volcano represents danger basically for local airlines. Ash falls possible at settlements: Milkovo (90 km to the north-west from the volcano) Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (115 km to the south-south-east) |
| Monitoring status |
seismic, satellite
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| Eruptions |
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2024/6/20 – continues
2021/4/3 – 2022/8/22
2020/10/20 – 2021/1/2
2020/5/10 – 2020/7/29
2019/2/16 – 2019/9/24
2018/4/28 – 2018/5/14
2017/6/3 – 2018/1/27
1996/1/2 – 2016/2/12
1976/3/23 – 1982/10/11
1970/5/11 – 1973/6
1960/4 – 1967
1955 – 1957/2
1952/11
1945/9 – 1947
~ 1943/1
1940
1938/10
1932/4 – 1935/1
1929/9
1925/7
1923
1921
1915
1911 – 1912
1908
1854
1852
1830
1771
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