Merry Christmas!
Kamchatkan and Northern Kuriles Volcanic
Activity
KVERT INFORMATION RELEASE 74-09
Thursday, December 24, 2009, 22:35 UTC (Friday, December 25, 10:35 KST)
SUMMARY OF AVIATION
COLOR CODES:
KAMCHATKA:
SHEVELUCH, KLYUCHEVSKOY
and KARYMSKY: ORANGE
BEZYMIANNY: YELLOW
TOLBACHIK PLOSKY, KORYAKSKY, AVACHINSKY,
GORELY, MUTNOVSKY and KIZIMEN: 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 4.1 km (13,500 ft) ASL last week. According to video data, a small ash plume occurred at the volcano on December 22; moderate fumarolic activity was observing on December 18 and 21-22, clouds obscured the volcano in the other days of week. According to satellite data, a big thermal anomaly was registering over the lava dome all 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
Explosive-effusive eruption of the
volcano continues. Ash explosions > 7.0 km (>23,000 ft)ASL could occur at
any time. The activity of the volcano could affect international and low-flying
aircraft.
Seismicity of the volcano was above background levels all week. According to visual data on December 18 and 21-23, Strombolian activity of the volcano continues. A height of bursts was about 300 m above the crater. An effusion of a lava flow on the east-south-eastern volcanic flank continues too. Clouds obscured the volcano in the other days of week. According to satellite data, a big thermal anomaly was registering over the volcano all week.
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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.
There was no seismic data by technical reasons all week. According to satellite data, a thermal anomaly was registering over the volcano all week. Three streaks of ash deposits about 10 km (6 mi) to the south-east from the volcano was noted on the satellite image on December 24.
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BEZYMIANNY VOLCANO: 55°58'N,
160°36'E; Elevation 2,895 m
AVIATION COLOR CODE IS YELLOW
Activity of the volcano continues and its aerosolic plumes could affect low-flying aircraft.
Seismic activity of the volcano was above background levels on December 22-24. Strong fumarolic activity of the volcano was observing in these days. Gas-steam plumes rose up to 4.0 km (13, 120 ft) ASL. According to satellite data, a big and bright thermal anomaly was registering on December 21-23.
http://www.kscnet.ru/ivs/kvert/current/bzm/index.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
KVERT Information Releases at the web-page of AVO (Alaska Volcano
observatory): http://www.avo.alaska.edu/activity/avoreport.php?view=kaminfo