Mutnovsky Volcano
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| Location | ||||||||||||
The volcano is located in Southern Kamchatka, about 70 km to the southwest from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
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| Form and structure | ||||||||||||
The volcano is a volcanic complex consisting of four overlapping stratovolcanoes capped by a number of summit craters up to 1.3 km wide. The most of the active vents is on the southwestern slopes. |
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| Composition | ||||||||||||
| From basalts to rhyodacites | ||||||||||||
| Age | ||||||||||||
| Middle Pleistocene | ||||||||||||
| Aviation color code |
GREEN |
| Last VONA/KVERT Releases |
No VONA/KVERT Releases |
| Hazard synopsis |
Mutnovsky is one of the most active volcanoes of the southern Kamchatkan. Principal hazards are ash plumes, ash falls, and lahars.
Ash falls possible at: Paratunka (50 km to the north from the volcano) Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (70 km to the northeast) |
| Monitoring status |
seismic, satellite, visual
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