Kamchatkan
and Northern Kuriles Volcanic Activity
KVERT INFORMATION RELEASE
60-09
Thursday, October 15, 2009, 21:40 UTC (Friday, October 16, 10:40 KDT)
SUMMARY OF AVIATION COLOR
CODES:
KAMCHATKA:
SHEVELUCH, KLYUCHEVSKOY and KARYMSKY: ORANGE
KIZIMEN, KORYAKSKY and BEZYMIANNY: YELLOW
TOLBACHIK PLOSKY, AVACHINSKY,
GORELY and MUTNOVSKY: GREEN
NORTHERN KURILES:
EBEKO,
CHIKURACHKI and ALAID: GREEN
SHEVELUCH VOLCANO: 56°38'N,
161°19'E; Elevation 3,283 m, the dome elevation ~2,500 m
AVIATION COLOR CODE
IS ORANGE
Activity of the volcano
continues: a new viscous lava flow effuses at the lava dome. Ash
explosions 10 km (32,800 ft) ASL could occur at any time. The activity
of the volcano could affect international and low-flying
aircraft.
Seismicity was above background levels all week. According to seismic data, possibly ash plumes rose up to 4.5 km (14,800 ft) ASL last week. According to visual and video data, a movement of many hot avalanches occurred from the lava dome on October 12-14. Deposits of a small pyroclastic flow was noting on the S-E-flank of the volcano. Fumarolic plumes containing small amount of ash rose up to 3.5 km (13,100 ft) ASL on October 11-13. Clouds obscured the volcano in the other days of week. According to satellite data, a big thermal anomaly was registering over the lava dome on October 08-13 and 15. Dense clouds obscured the volcano in the other days of week.
http://www.kscnet.ru/ivs/kvert/current/shv/index.html
KLYUCHEVSKOY VOLCANO; 56° 03'N, 160° 39'E; Elevation 4,750
m
AVIATION COLOR CODE IS ORANGE
Activity of the volcano continues. Ash explosions > 6.0 km (>19,700 ft) ASL could occur at any time. The activity of the volcano could affect international and low-flying aircraft.
Explosive eruption of the volcano began on September 18.
Seismicity was above background levels all week but a magnitude of a weak volcanic tremor decreased to the end of week. According to visual data, Strombolian activity of the volcano was observed on October 11. A height of bursts was about 200 m above the crater. Fumarolic column containing small amount of ash rose up to 5.7 km (19,700 ft) ASL on October 11. Moderate fumarolic activity of the volcano was noted on October 8 and 11-13, clouds obscured the volcano in the other days of week. According to satellite data, a thermal anomaly was registering over the volcano all week.
http://www.kscnet.ru/ivs/kvert/current/klch/index.html
KARYMSKY VOLCANO: 54°03'N, 159°27'E; Elevation 1,486
m
AVIATION COLOR CODE IS ORANGE
Activity of the volcano continues and ash explosions up to 6.0
km (or 19,700 ft) ASL possible. The explosive activity of the volcano could
affect low-flying aircraft.
Seismic activity of the volcano was above background levels last week. According to seismic data, possibly ash plumes rose up to 3.7 km (12,100 ft) ASL last week. According to the data by volcanologists who work now at the volcano, ash plume raising up to 3.5 km (11,500 ft) ASL was observed at ~ 23:40 UTC on October 11. According to satellite data, the volcano was quiet last week.
http://www.kscnet.ru/ivs/kvert/current/krm/index.html
KORYAKSKY VOLCANO; 53°19'N, 158°43'E; Elevation 3,456
m
AVIATION COLOR CODE IS YELLOW
Activity of the volcano continues and gas-steam plumes and
possible ash plumes could affect low-flying aircraft.
Seismicity didn't exceeded background levels all week. Moderate fumarolic activity of the volcano was observed on October 08-12 and 14-15. According to satellite data, the volcano was quiet last week.
http://www.kscnet.ru/ivs/kvert/current/krk/index.html
BEZYMIANNY VOLCANO: 55°58'N, 160°36'E; Elevation 2,895
m
AVIATION COLOR CODE IS YELLOW
Growth of the lava dome continues. Sudden ash emission related
to this activity could affect low-flying aircraft in the vicinity of the
volcano.
Seismicity activity of the volcano was above background levels on October 12 and didn't exceeded background levels in the others days of week. Moderate fumarolic activity of the volcano was noted on October 12-13. Clouds obscured the volcano in the other days of week. According to satellite data, a weak thermal anomaly was registering over the lava dome on October 09. Clouds obscured the volcano in the other days of week.
http://www.kscnet.ru/ivs/kvert/current/bzm/index.html
KIZIMEN VOLCANO: 55°12'N, 160°32'E; Elevation 2,485 m
AVIATION COLOR CODE IS YELLOW
Activity of the volcano continues. KVERT continues to watch the Kizimen volcano.
Seismic activity of the volcano was above background levels on October 08-11 and didn't exceeded background levels in the others days of week. Many shallow earthquakes were registered during October 09-11. According to satellite data, a weak thermal anomaly over the volcano was registered on October 09.
http://www.ivs.kscnet.ru/ivs/kvert/volcanoes/Kizimen/index_eng.html
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS, PLEASE
CONTACT:
Dr. Olga Girina, KVERT, IVS FED RAS
E-mail: girina@kscnet.ru
Tel. (41522)
58627
Svetlana Toloknova, KVERT, KB GS RAS
E-mail: ssl@emsd.ru
Tel. (41522) 59523
Dr. Tom
Murray, Scientist-in-Charge, USGS
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). KVERT
staff is available in the office from 8:30 AM till 6:00 PM (KST or KDT) and by
phone during the evenings. KVERT uses daily satellite imagery, 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.
The official web-page of KVERT (the Institute of Volcanology
and Seismology FED RAS): http://www.kscnet.ru/ivs/kvert/index_eng.php
Archive of daily information KB GS RAS: ftp://emsd.iks.ru/pub/DATA/RTS/Volcanoes
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observatory): http://www.avo.alaska.edu/activity/avoreport.php?view=kaminfo