Scientists of the Russian expert council for earthquake forecasting, seismic hazard and risk assessment, believe that over the next month the one of the most active Kamchatka volcanoes may begin to spew ash or even lava.
Rescuers warn that independent tourists and extreme sportsmen willing to visit the volcano should be extremely careful. Steam and gas emissions are of particular danger.Together with the emitted ash air electrification can lead to breakdown of electrical appliances.
Now, there are no tourist groups registered in the area of Avachinsky volcano.
Avachinsky volcano is one of the most active on the Kamchatka Peninsula. It is about 190 thousand years old and is similar in structure to Vesuvius. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is built on a mixture of ash and rock fragments that erupted from Avachi about 30 thousand years ago.
Last Sunday, December 8, on Sakhalin, Ebeko volcano, which is located 7 kilometers north-west of the city of Severo-Kurilsk, threw ash to an altitude of up to 2.7 kilometers. Its height is 1,156 meters. Seismologists have been recording its activity for three years.
A month ago, on November 11, the most powerful eruption in recent years began on the Kamchatka volcano Klyuchevskaya Sopka. It threw a column of ash six kilometers high. For the first time after a three-year silence, fresh lava began to raise in Klyuchevskaya Sopka. It did not leave the volcano, but scientists saw it from photographs that showed glows above the crater.
Klyuchevskaya Sopka, located in the east of Kamchatka, 360 kilometers from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, reaches an altitude of 4 thousand 850 meters. This active stratovolcano is the highest peak of Russia outside the Caucasus. Its approximate age is 7 thousand years.
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