Tectonic map of the Kamchatka peninsula and the Kurile islands. Red triangles show active volcanoes. (Map created using the UNAVCO / Voyager map tool, featuring Face of the Earth)
Tectonic map of the Kamchatka peninsula and the Kurile islands. Red triangles show active volcanoes. (Map created using the UNAVCO / Voyager map tool, featuring Face of the Earth)
Map of Kamchatka's major active volcanoes (basemap: NASA).
Map of Kamchatka's major active volcanoes (basemap: NASA).

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Dienstag, Mai 08, 2012
KVERT reported that moderate seismic activity from Karymsky continued to be detected during 27 April-4 May, and indicated that possible ash plumes ros... [mehr]
KVERT reported that explosive activity at Shiveluch continued during 27 April-4 May. Ground-based observers and satellite imagery indicated that a vis... [mehr]
Webcam image of the eruption on 5 May (KVERT)
Sonntag, Mai 06, 2012
Dr. Olga Girina from KVERT reported a strong explosive eruption from Shiveluch on 5 May. The ash column rose to 8 km altitude and images of the webcam... [mehr]
Donnerstag, Mai 03, 2012
Explosive activity at Shiveluch continued during 20-27 April. Ground-based observers and satellite imagery indicated that a viscous lava flow continue... [mehr]
Moderate seismic activity from Karymsky continued to be detected during 20-27 April, and indicated that possible ash plumes rose to an altitude of 2.5... [mehr]
Donnerstag, Apr 19, 2012
During 7-13 April moderate seismic activity from Karymsky continued to be detected, and indicated that possible ash plumes rose to an altitude of 2.5 ... [mehr]

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Volcanoes of Kamchatka

Shiveluch (Sheveluch) | Kliuchevskoi (Kliuchevsky, Klyuchevskaya) | Bezymianny | Kizimen | Karymsky | Koryaksky | Avachinsky | Gorely
Shiveluch (Sheveluch)
(Schichtvulkan)
Shiveluch volcano on a Terra satellite image from 19 Feb 2012. Volcanic debris is seen on the lower flanks; the debris traveled about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Shiveluch’s growing lava dome. (Nasa Earth Observatory)Vulkan Shiveluch (Sheveluch) ist eine eines Kamtschatka des größten und aktivsten Vulkane, und diejenige, die die heftigsten Eruptionen gehabt hat. [mehr]

Kliuchevskoi (Kliuchevsky, Klyuchevskaya)
(Schichtvulkan)
Kliuchevskoi volcano (also spelled Kliuchevsky, Klyuchevskaya) is Kamchatka's highest and one of the world's most active volcanoes.
Kliuchevsky is located in a remote area of the Kamchatka peninsula. It has a large active crater with frequent strombolian and lava fountain ... [mehr]

Bezymianny
(Schichtvulkan)
Bezymianny ("unnamed") was considered extinct until it erupted violently in 1955-56, after a slumber of probably 1000 years. It is one of the most active volcanoes in Kamchatka. The eruption followed a massive flank failure (similar to Mt. St. Helens eruption in 1980) which remov... [mehr]

Kizimen
(Schichtvulkan)
Kizimen volcano is an isolated, conical stratovolcano located in the Shchapina graben on the SE margin of the Central Kamchatkan Valley. After almost a century of quiet, it started to become restless in 2009 and erupt in late 2010. The new ongoing eruption has been building a new... [mehr]

Karymsky
(Schichtvulkan)
Karymsky ist der aktivste Vulkan auf Kamtschatka im Osten vulkanischen Zone und einer perfekten symmetrischen Vulkan. Ascheeruptionen aus Karymski kann im Wege der Flugzeuge Flugrouten über den N-Pazifik kommen. Karymsky, der aktivste Vulkan auf Kamtschatka im Osten vulkanischen ... [mehr]

Koryaksky
(Schichtvulkan)
Koryaksky in the SE of the Kamchatka peninsula and near its capital Petropavlovsk is one of Kamchatka's most beautiful and prominent stratovolcanoes. [mehr]

Avachinsky
(Schichtvulkan)
Avachinsky überragt Petropawlowsk, ist Kamtschatka die größte Stadt einer der aktivsten Vulkane von Kamtschatka. Es bricht in der Regel alle paar Jahre bis Jahrzehnte, oft Herstellung von Asche-Strömen und Lahars. [mehr]

Gorely
(Stratovolcano (caldera))
The second and active summit crater of Gorely, with a boiling and acid green lake seen from SW. (photo: Marco Fulle)Gorely volcano is one of the most active volcanoes in southern Kamchatka and located 75 km SW of Petropavlovsk. It is a complex of several overlapping stratovolcanoes with many summit and flank craters. Activity in historic times were mainly small to medium-sized ash and steam er... [mehr]

Volcanoes of Kamchatka

The Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) is one of the most volcanically active volcanic places on earth, second only perhaps to Iceland and Hawaii. In this part of the Pacific "Ring of Fire", there are over 100 active volcanoes (the Smithsonian Institution lists 109) and about 30 volcanoes that have erupted recently, in addition to hundreds of smaller monogenetic vents (i.e. that have formed during one single eruption)
The active volcanoes form a 700-km long volcanic belt from Shiveluch in the north to Kambalny in the south. The vigorous volcanism on Kamchatka, like that of the adjacent Aleutian and Kurile island arcs, is produced by the subduction of the Pacific plate under the E margin of the Eurasian plate.
During the past 10,000 years, at least about 30 very large (so-called Plinian) eruptions have occurred in Kamchatka, i.e. eruptions that have ejected more than 1 cubic kilometer of magma. With this record, Kamchatka is by far the place on earth with the greatest frequency of large explosive eruptions.
The most active volcanoes on Kamchatka are Klyuchevsky, Shiveluch, Karymsky and Bezymianny.
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