Saturday, March 10, 2012

The eruption of the volcano "Nameless"

the volcano NamelessOn march 9, 2012 at Kamchatka there was a great eruption of the volcano "Unnamed". The specialists of the institute of volcanology and seismology reported the event.
They say that the volcano began to prepare for an outbreak in February. The specialists of the kamchatka branch of the Geophysical service of the predicted that the beginning of the eruption of the "Nameless" will 3-10 march.
The eruption of the volcano poses no danger to the population of the Kamchatka region. But the mass of volcanic ash, moving in a north-eastern direction, bear a serious threat to the aircraft, whose routes pass over the northern part of the Pacific ocean.
The last eruption of the "Nameless" took place in April 2011. "The nameless" is "explosive". The eruption of the volcano happen 1-2 times a year. The volcano height of 2.9 thousand meters above sea level refers to the Klyuchevskaya group of volcanoes of Kamchatka. The nameless is located 500 kilometers from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, on the eastern coast of the peninsula, which straddles intercontinental sat airlines, linking the United States with countries of the Asia-Pacific region.
The catastrophic eruption of the Nameless happened on march 30, 1956, then plumes of ash rose up to a height of more than 40 kilometers, and mud flows have filled the Kamchatka river - the largest river of the peninsula. After the eruption the SOVIET union began regular monitoring of volcanoes, were created by specialized scientific institutions, and 30 march has celebrate the Day of the researcher volcanoes.

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