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Karymsky

Stratovolcano · Russia · 1513m

Karymsky was constructed within a 5-km-wide caldera that formed during a major explosive eruption about 7,500 years ago. Much of the cone is mantled by lava flows less than 200 years old, seen here from a volcanological field camp on the SW flank. Frequent historical eruptions have produced explosive activity with occasional lava flows from the summit crater.
Karymsky was constructed within a 5-km-wide caldera that formed during a major explosive eruption about 7,500 years ago. Much of the cone is mantled by lava flows less than 200 years old, seen here from a volcanological field camp on the SW flank. Frequent historical eruptions have produced explosive activity with occasional lava flows from the summit crater. · Photo: Photo by Nikolai Smelov, 1996 (courtesy of Vera Ponomareva, Institute of Volcanic Geology and Geochemistry, Petropavlovsk). · Wikimedia Commons
Type
Stratovolcano
Country
Russia
Region
Northwestern Pacific Volcanic Regions / Eastern Kamchatka Volcanic Arc
Elevation
1513m
Coordinates
54.049, 159.443
Last eruption
2025
Tectonic setting
Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Landform
Composite
Major rock type
Andesite / Basaltic Andesite
Geological summary

Karymsky, the most active volcano of Kamchatka's eastern volcanic zone, is a symmetrical stratovolcano constructed within a 5-km-wide caldera that formed during the early Holocene. The caldera cuts the south side of the Pleistocene Dvor volcano and is located outside the north margin of the large mid-Pleistocene Polovinka caldera, which contains the smaller Akademia Nauk and Odnoboky calderas. Most seismicity preceding Karymsky eruptions originated beneath Akademia Nauk caldera, located immediately south. The caldera enclosing Karymsky formed about 7600-7700 radiocarbon years ago; construction of the stratovolcano began about 2000 years later. The latest eruptive period began about 500 years ago, following a 2300-year quiescence. Much of the cone is mantled by lava flows less than 200 years old. Historical eruptions have been vulcanian or vulcanian-strombolian with moderate explosive activity and occasional lava flows from the summit crater.

From Wikipedia

Karymsky is an active stratovolcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It and Shiveluch are Kamchatka's largest, most active and most continuously erupting volcanoes, as well as one of the most active on the planet.

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Eruption history

Summary (VEI over time)
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6600 BCE~6312 BCE · 1 eruptions · max VEI 64300 BCE~4012 BCE · 1 eruptions · max VEI ?3725 BCE~3437 BCE · 1 eruptions · max VEI ?3437 BCE~3150 BCE · 1 eruptions · max VEI 42575 BCE~2287 BCE · 1 eruptions · max VEI 32287 BCE~2000 BCE · 2 eruptions · max VEI 41425 BCE~1137 BCE · 1 eruptions · max VEI 21137 BCE~850 BCE · 1 eruptions · max VEI ?850 BCE~562 BCE · 1 eruptions · max VEI 3875~1163 · 3 eruptions · max VEI 21450~1738 · 3 eruptions · max VEI ?1738~2025 · 37 eruptions · max VEI 36600 BCE4587 BCE2287 BCE275 BCE1738

Detailed timeline

  1. 2025VEI ?Observed
    2025-04-30 – 2025-09-19
  2. 2024VEI 3Observed
    2024-06-20 – 2024-11-12
  3. 2020VEI 3Observed
    2020-04-01 – 2022-08-07
  4. 2017VEI 3Observed
    2017-06-04 – 2019-09-24
    Summit crater
  5. 2016VEI 2Observed
    2016-10-05 – 2016-10-08
    Summit crater
  6. 2001VEI 3Observed
    2001-11-15 – 2016-04-01
    Summit and upper south flank
  7. 1996VEI 3Observed
    1996-01-02 – 2000-12-20
    New summit crater SW of 1970-82 crater
  8. 1970VEI 3Observed
    1970-05-11 – 1982-10-11
  9. 1967VEI 1Observed
    1967-11-16 – 1967-11-16
  10. 1965VEI 3Observed
    1965-05-15 – 1967-02-16
  11. 1960VEI 3Observed
    1960-04-16 – 1964-12-16
  12. 1956VEI 1Observed
    1956-03-16 – 1957-02-16
  13. 1955VEI 2Observed
    1955-07-02 – Ongoing
  14. 1953VEI 2Observed
    1953-07-02 – Ongoing
  15. 1952VEI 2Observed
    1952-11-16 – Ongoing
  16. 1947VEI 2Observed
    1947-04 – Ongoing
  17. 1946VEI 2Observed
    1946-04 – Ongoing
  18. 1946VEI 2Observed
    1946-09 – 1946-10
  19. 1945VEI 2Observed
    1945-09 – Ongoing
  20. 1943VEI 2Observed
    1943-02-01 – Ongoing
  21. 1940VEI 2Observed
    1940 – Ongoing
  22. 1938VEI 2Observed
    1938-10 – Ongoing
  23. 1934VEI 2Observed
    1934-11 – 1935-02
  24. 1933VEI 2Observed
    1933-09 – 1933-10
  25. 1932VEI 2Observed
    1932-06 – Ongoing
  26. 1929VEI 2Observed
    1929 – Ongoing
  27. 1925VEI 2Observed
    1925-07 – Ongoing
  28. 1923VEI 2Observed
    1923-02 – Ongoing
  29. 1921VEI 2Observed
    1921-09 – Ongoing
  30. 1915VEI 2Observed
    1915 – Ongoing
  31. 1912VEI 2Observed
    1912-01 – Ongoing
  32. 1911VEI 2Observed
    1911 – Ongoing
  33. 1908VEI 2Observed
    1908 – Ongoing
  34. 1854VEI 2Observed
    1854-09 – Ongoing
  35. 1852VEI 2Observed
    1852 – Ongoing
  36. 1830VEI 2Observed
    1830 – Ongoing
  37. 1771VEI 2Observed
    1771 – Ongoing
  38. 1730 (±25 yrs)VEI ?Geological estimate
    1730 – Ongoing
  39. 1550VEI ?Geological estimate
    1550 – Ongoing
  40. 1450VEI ?Geological estimate
    1450 – Ongoing
  41. 1150VEI 2Geological estimate
    1150 – Ongoing
  42. 1050VEI ?Geological estimate
    1050 – Ongoing
  43. 950VEI ?Geological estimate
    950 – Ongoing
  44. 850 BCEVEI 3Geological estimate
    BCE 850 – Ongoing
  45. 1100 BCEVEI ?Geological estimate
    BCE 1100 – Ongoing
  46. 1400 BCEVEI 2Geological estimate
    BCE 1400 – Ongoing
  47. 2050 BCEVEI ?Geological estimate
    BCE 2050 – Ongoing
  48. 2250 BCEVEI 4Geological estimate
    BCE 2250 – Ongoing
  49. 2350 BCEVEI 3Geological estimate
    BCE 2350 – Ongoing
  50. 3200 BCEVEI 4Geological estimate
    BCE 3200 – Ongoing
  51. 3450 BCEVEI ?Geological estimate
    BCE 3450 – Ongoing
  52. 4150 BCEVEI ?Geological estimate
    BCE 4150 – Ongoing
  53. 6600 BCEVEI 6Geological estimate
    BCE 6600 – Ongoing
    Karymsky caldera

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