Krasheninnikov Volcano:
The eruption of the Krasheninnikov volcano was recently recorded for the first time.The Volcano erupted on 2 August 2025, three days after a nearby magnitude 8.8 earthquake. Ash emissions reached an altitude of 20,000 ft.
- Krasheninnikov Volcano is an active complex volcano located in the Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.
- The Kamchatka Peninsula lies along the Pacific “Ring of Fire.”
- There are 114 volcanoes on the Kamchatka Peninsula that have erupted during the Holocene Epoch (approximately 12,000 years ago to the present).
- Krasheninnikov is a stratovolcano and reaches a height of 1,886 meters.
- The volcano is located in a collapsed caldera.
- It is made up of two eruptive cones in a 9 km wide caldera.
- The southern cone of Krasheninnikov contains a crater 800 m wide and 140 m deep.
- Its last eruption took place about 400 or 600 years ago.
