“Volcanic activity on the peninsula has dramatically intensified.”
Three giant volcanoes, Shiveluch, Kizimen and Plosky Talbachek, are erupting in different parts of the peninsula simultaneously, causing dozens of local earthquakes as vibrations accompanying the eruptions continue to increase.
Over the last days, Shiveluch, the biggest and most active, erupted gases several times while unceasing earth tremors send avalanches down its slopes.
Seismic activity at Stratovolcano Kizimen also by far exceeds normal. More than 80 local earthquakes have been registered near the volcano in the last 24 hours. At night a red glow could be seen in the sky above its crater. Kizimen ‘woke up’ in 2009 after the last big eruption in 1928-29 and since then its activity has only been growing.
Plosky Talbachek volcano has been erupting lava for weeks now. The flows are glowing in the nighttime, which means that more and more masses of lava continue to arrive, reported Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team.
Aviation authorities have issued an orange security level in the area.
See photos:
http://rt.com/news/kamchatka-three-volcanoes-eruption-485/
Thanks to W. T. Sellers for this link
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Beware of any explosive activity with high sulfur output. There is some precedent: http://www.leif.org/EOS/2011GL050168.pdf
like with icelands the contrast between ice and snow and lava is stunningly beautiful to see, you just dont wanna BE there.
I heard on aus radio today that Papua new Guineas got one of its volcanos having a spit as well.
The RT report is a tad excessive.
Try reading the direct reporting on KVERT
Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team
Does not sound nearly so scary!
Not just New Guinea, many of the volcanoes around the globe are stirring: see this latest report from the extinction protocol –
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/29-global-volcanic-activity-report-for-january-19-2013/
I wish they would start reporting how much CO2 these eruptions are spewing into the atmosphere.
Sorry, that’s Classified.
Wonder how long it will be before the big volcanoes here in the Pacific Northwest start farting?
Mt St Helens did in 2004 and right around that time we had some very hot summers.
Important to remember that the Kamchatka peninsula is almost as big as California.