Karymsky (1468) is the most active volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula. Video – with a hat off to the pilot. Karymsky is a symmetrical stratovolcano rising within a 5-km-wide caldera that formed during the early Holocene. Much of the cone is mantled by lava flows less than 200 years old. Historical eruptions have been vulcanian or vulcanian-strombolian with moderate explosive activity and occasional lava flows from the summit crater.
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There is currently an ongoing non-stop eruption occurring, and is the peninsula’s most reliable volcano, which has been erupting continuously since 1996.
Video – Karymsky eruption:
Karymsky (1468) is the most active volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula. Video – with a hat off to the pilot – credit Alexander Ostrovsky pic.twitter.com/Jzl3JvM6rN
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Past eruption dates are: 1771, 1830, 1852, 1854, 1908, 1911, 1912, 1915, 1921, 1923, 1925, 1929, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1940, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1990, 1993, 1996, 2004 to 2018 (present).
