Extinct Russian Volcano Has Woken up and Could Unleash 'Pompeii-size' Eruption, Scien

[Peter1469]

Extinct Russian Volcano Has Woken up and Could Unleash 'Pompeii-size' Eruption, Scientists Warn

The Kamchatka Peninsula is lightly populated, but effects from such an eruption would be more than local.

A volcano previously classified as "extinct" in Russia's far east has woken up, and experts are now warning it could produce an eruption similar to the one that wiped out Pompeii and Herculaneum almost 2,000 years ago.
The Bolshaya Udina volcano is a stratovolcano located at the center of the Klyuchevskaya volcano group on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. It stands at around 10,000 feet in height and, until 2017 it was considered extinct, meaning it has not erupted in a long time and is unlikely to ever erupt again.


It is not known when Udina last erupted. However, scientists recently noticed continuing seismic activity beneath the mountain, potentially suggesting the "awakening" of the volcano complex, scientists wrote in the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.



As a result, a team of researchers from Russia, Saudi Arabia and Egypt carried out a detailed investigation on the volcano. They installed four seismic stations and monitored the complex for two months, over May and June last year.

[MMC]

Russia has a disaster relief program Right?


Activity under the Volcano, huh. Putin wouldn't put base under a volcano would he?

[Peter1469]

Russia has a disaster relief program Right?


Activity under the Volcano, huh. Putin wouldn't put base under a volcano would he?

They probably do. They have extensive bomb shelters. The question is whether any are near the area that would be affected by this.

[Admiral Ackbar]

Maybe AOC should go over there and try to plug it up to save the climate!

[Lummy]

The Bolshaya Udina volcano is a stratovolcano located at the center of the Klyuchevskaya volcano group on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. It stands at around 10,000 feet in height and, until 2017 it was considered extinct, meaning it has not erupted in a long time and is unlikely to ever erupt again.

Boatloads of bears are at risk, however. Save the bears! I believe they are the biggest on the planet outside the arctic circle.

Perhaps "dormant" would have been a better term than "extinct". No harm, no foul, though, right?

[MMC]

Maybe AOC should go over there and try to plug it up to save the climate!