{"id":57918,"date":"2025-08-03T15:06:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=57918"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:02:48","slug":"krasheninnikov-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/krasheninnikov-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"Krasheninnikov Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Krasheninnikov Volcano Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The eruption of the Krasheninnikov volcano was recently recorded for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Krasheninnikov Volcano<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>active complex volcano<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located in the <\/span><b>Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kamchatka <\/span><b>Peninsula <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lies along the <\/span><b>Pacific &#8220;Ring of Fire.&#8221;<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are <\/span><b>114 volcanoes on the Kamchatka Peninsula <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that have <\/span><b>erupted during the Holocene Epoch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (approximately 12,000 years ago to the present).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Krasheninnikov is a <\/span><b>stratovolcano <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and reaches a height of 1,886 meters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The volcano is <\/span><b>located in a collapsed caldera,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which <\/span><b>formed <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">after a catastrophic eruption which produced 50 cubic km of dacitic pumice <\/span><b>39,600 years ago.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>made up of two eruptive cones<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a <\/span><b>9 km wide caldera.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The southern cone of Krasheninnikov contains a crater 800 m wide and 140 m deep.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>last eruption<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> took place about <\/span><b>400 or 600 years ago.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>2025 Eruption: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Krasheninnikov volcano erupted on 2 August 2025, three days <\/span><b>after a nearby magnitude 8.8 earthquake<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Ash emissions reached an altitude of 20,000 ft.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>What is a Stratovolcano?<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>tall, steep,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>cone-shaped <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">type of volcano.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike flat shield volcanoes, they have<\/span><b> higher peaks.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are <\/span><b>typically found above subduction zones<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and they are <\/span><b>often part of large volcanically active regions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, such as the <\/span><b>Ring of Fire<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that frames much of the Pacific Ocean.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strato Volcanoes comprise the <\/span><b>largest percentage (~60%) of the Earth\u2019s individual volcanoes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and most are characterized by <\/span><b>eruptions of andesite and dacite, lavas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that are <\/span><b>cooler and more viscous than basalt.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These more viscous lavas allow gas pressures to build up to high levels. Therefore, these volcanoes often<\/span><b> suffer explosive eruptions.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are <\/span><b>usually <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">about <\/span><b>half-half lava and pyroclastic material,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>layering of these products <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gives them their other <\/span><b>common name of composite volcanoes.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">At the peak,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> stratovolcanoes <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">usually have a small crater.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The crater may be filled with water or ice, or it may contain a volcanic dome during a period of relative inactivity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/europe\/krasheninnikov-volcano-erupts-in-kamchatka-for-the-first-time\/articleshow\/123070807.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TOI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krasheninnikov Volcano is an active complex volcano located in the Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":58311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1984,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-57918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-krasheninnikov-volcano","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}