Opala Volcano
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| Location | ||||||||||
Volcano is located in the northern part of South-Kamchatkan zone, 70 km from western coast of Kamchatka and 110 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
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| Form and structure | ||||||||||
The volcano is the cone-shaped stratovolcano in the caldera.
The crater at the summit of the volcano is destroed. |
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| Composition | ||||||||||
| From basalts to rhyolits | ||||||||||
| Age | ||||||||||
| Upper Pleistocene | ||||||||||
| Aviation color code |
GREEN |
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| Hazard synopsis |
Potential hazards are therminal explosive-effusive eruptions which produce ash plumes, ash falls, pyroclastic and lava flows and lahars. Principal hazards of the volcano eruptions are ash plumes, ash falls, pyroclastic flows, and lahars.
Ash falls possible at: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Yelizovo, Paratunka. |
| Monitoring status |
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