Kamchatkan and Northern Kuriles Volcanic
Activity
KVERT INFORMATION RELEASE 55-07
Monday, November 05, 2007, 22:00 UTC (Tuesday, November 06, 10:00 KDT)
BEZYMIANNY VOLCANO: 55°58'N,
160°36'E; Elevation 2,895 m
CURRENT LEVEL OF CONCERN COLOR CODE IS
YELLOW
Growth of the volcano continues. A viscous lava flow is effusing from the summit dome at Bezymianny. Sudden ash emission related to this activity could
affect low-flying aircraft in the vicinity of the volcano.
According to seismic data, probably small series of explosive events or collapses of a frontal part of lava flow of the dome occurred from 08:43 till
10:10 UTC on November 05. The general event was from 08:43 till 09:55 UTC on November 05. There were two hot avalanches at 15:45 UTC (moderate) and at
18:07 UTC (small) on that day. A height of this ash plume is unknown. Clouds obscured the volcano on November 01-06. KVERT have not the satellite data on
this time. According to AVO satellite data, a bright thermal anomaly was observed over the dome at 17:52 UTC (NOAA-16).
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS, PLEASE
CONTACT:
Olga Girina, KVERT, IVS FED RAS
E-mail: girina@kscnet.ru
Tel. (41522)
58627
Svetlana Droznina, KVERT, KB GS RAS
E-mail: ssl@emsd.iks.ru
Tel. (41522)
59523
Tom Murray, Scientist-in-Charge, AVO
E-mail: tlmurray@usgs.gov
Tel.
907-786-7497
The Kamchatkan Volcanic Eruption Response
Team (KVERT) is a non-commercial cooperative program of the Alaska Volcano
Observatory (AVO, USA), the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (IVS)
FED RAS and the Kamchatkan Branch of Geophysical Survey (KB GS) RAS (Russia).
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information from remote scientific observation stations, real-time seismic
data for 10 volcanoes, and other information to monitor activity at
Kamchatkan and Northern Kuriles Volcanoes.
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