***************************************************************************** Kamchatkan and Northern Kuriles Volcanic Activity KVERT INFORMATION RELEASE 63-07 Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 19:50 UTC (Thursday, December 20, 07:50 KST) ***************************************************************************** SHEVELUCH VOLCANO: 56°38'N, 161°19'E; Elevation 3,283 m, the dome elevation ~2,500 m. CURRENT LEVEL OF CONCERN COLOR CODE IS RED PREVIOUS LEVEL OF CONCERN COLOR CODE IS ORANGE According to satellite data, new explosive event at Sheveluch volcano occurred ~ at 05:30 UTC on December 19. Ash cloud is moving > 300 km to the south-west from the volcano to the Central Kamchatka for this time. Puff the cloud is at 6-8 km ASL. Possibly the explosive eruption of the volcano will continues. Ash explosions up to 10 km (32,800 ft.) ASL could occur at any time. The activity of the volcano could affect international and low-flying aircraft. Strong culmination explosive eruption of the lava dome of Young Sheveluch volcano occurred in 1993, 2001, 2004 and two in 2005. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS, PLEASE CONTACT: Olga Girina, KVERT, IVS FED RAS E-mail: girina@xxxxxxxxx Tel. (41522) 58627 Tatiana Kozhevnikova, KVERT, KB GS RAS E-mail: ssl@xxxxxxxxxxx Tel. (41522) 59523 Tom Murray, Scientist-in-Charge, AVO E-mail: tlmurray@xxxxxxxx Tel. 907-786-7497 The Kamchatkan Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT) is a non-commercial cooperative program of the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO, USA), the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (IVS) FED RAS and the Kamchatkan Branch of Geophysical Survey (KB GS) RAS (Russia). KVERT staff is available in the office from 8:30 AM till 6:00 PM (KST or KDT) and by phone during the evenings. KVERT uses daily satellite imagery, information from remote scientific observation stations, real-time seismic data for 10 volcanoes, and other information to monitor activity at Kamchatkan and Northern Kuriles Volcanoes. The official web-page of KVERT (the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology FED RAS): http://www.kscnet.ru/ivs/kvert/index.html Archive of daily information KB GS RAS: ftp://emsd.iks.ru/pub/DATA/RTS/Volcanoes KVERT Information Releases at the web-page of AVO (Alaska Volcano Observatory): http://www.avo.alaska.edu/activity/avoreport.php?view=kaminfo ============================================================== To unsubscribe from the volcano list, send the message: signoff volcano to: listserv@xxxxxxx, or write to: volcano-request@xxxxxxxx To contribute to the volcano list, send your message to: volcano@xxxxxxxx Please do not send attachments. ==============================================================
