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PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, November 28 (RIA Novosti) - An explosive volcanic eruption began in Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Tuesday, the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT) said on Wednesday.
The eruption at the 3,085-meter Plosky Tolbachik volcano was given code orange (number three on the four-tiered USGS Volcano Alert Level), meaning it “poses limited hazards.”
“Explosive eruption of the volcano began on November 27. Ash explosions up to 32,800 ft (10 km) a.s.l. could occur at any time. Ongoing activity could affect international and low-flying aircraft,” the organization said on its website.
JAKARTA, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Mount Lokon volcano in North Sulawesi erupted on Wednesday, spewing ash up to 3.5 kilometers to the sky, without report of fatality and evacuation, officials said.
Head of National Volcanology Surono said that the eruption took place at 10:05 local time (0205 GMT).
He said that the agency had asked people living near the crater to be alert.
"We issued warning to the people living 2.5 kilometers from the crater," Surono told Xinhua by phone.
The 3,085-meter Plosky Tolbachik volcano in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula is erupting for the first time in 36 years, according to reports of KVERT, the he volcano monitoring body for Kamchatka.
The volcano is located on the peninsula's eastern coast, 343 km from the region's capital of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
A bulletin released Tuesday by the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT), as cited by The Voice of Russia, described a significant explosive eruption with the potential for ash explosions up to 10 km.
Two overlapping but dissimilar volcanoes form the massive Tolbachik volcano. The flat-topped Plosky Tolbachik basaltic shield volcano (right), with its nested Hawaiian-type calderas up to 3 km in diameter, is located east of the older and higher sharp-topped Ostry Tolbachik stratovolcano (left). Lengthy rift zones extending NE and south of Plosky Tolbachik have erupted voluminous basaltic lava flows during the Holocene. The 1975-76 eruption from the summit and south-flank fissures was the largest historical basaltic eruption in Kamchatka.
Photo by Oleg Volynets (Institute of Volcanology, Petropavlovsk).
The twin volcanoes Lokon and Empung, rising about 800 m above the plain of Tondano, are among the most active volcanoes of Sulawesi. Lokon, the higher of the two peaks ( whose summits are only 2.2 km apart), has a flat, craterless top. The morphologically younger Empung volcano has a 400-m-wide, 150-m-deep crater that erupted last in the 18th century, but all subsequent eruptions have originated from Tompaluan, a 150 x 250 m wide double crater situated in the saddle between the two peaks. Historical eruptions have primarily produced small-to-moderate ash plumes that have occasionally damaged croplands and houses, but lava-dome growth and pyroclastic flows have also occurred.
Head of National Volcanology Surono said that the eruption took place at 10:05 local time (0205 GMT).