Shiveluch Volcano

About Shiveluch Volcano:

• Location: It is located around 280 miles from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, in Russia’s Kamchatka.
• It is one of the largest and most active volcanoes in Kamchatka, having erupted at least 60 times in the past 10,000 years.
• It has two main parts:
  • Old Shiveluch, which tops 3,283 metres (10,771 ft), and
  • Young Shiveluch– a smaller, 2,800-metre peak protruding from its side.
  • Young Shiveluch lies within an ancient caldera – a large crater-like basin that likely formed when the older part underwent a catastrophic eruption at least 10,000 years ago.
• The volcano has been continuously erupting since August 1999, but occasionally undergoes powerful explosive events, including in 2007.

Key facts about Kamchatka Peninsula

• It lies in far eastern Russia, between the Sea of Okhotskon the west and the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea on the east.
• It is one of the world’s most concentrated areas of geothermal activity, with about 30 active volcanoes.
• It is about 1,200 km long north-south and about 480 km across at its widest.