page_title: Kizimen
hierarchical_section_title: Kizimen
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a cropped version of the second aerial telephoto picture of the eruption of Kizimen Volcano in Kamchatka taken by Don Nelson Page (Professor of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), 1961x1312_pixels, with a Nikon D80 digital camera and an AF-S Nikkor 18-200 mm zoom lens (probably set at 200 mm) on 2010 December 10 at 03:14 UTC (2:14 p.m. local Kamchatka time) from Seat 36K of Air Canada Flight 063 from Vancouver, Canada, to Incheon-Seoul, Korea. According to emails from Russian volcanologists Olga Girina (Institute of Volcanology and Seismology FED RAS, Head of KVERT blv. Piip, 9, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia 683006) and Evgeny Gordeev (Director of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology RAS) and from the Alaskan Volcano Observatory volcanologist Christina Neal (USGS - 4200 University Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA), this and 18 other photos by Don Page on this occasion appear to be the only ones of Kizimen Volcano at this initial stage of its December 2010 eruption. Kizimen Volcano is said to have the potential of a Mount-Saint-Helens-type eruption.
context_page_description: Kizimen is a stratovolcano in the southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.
  The volcano was in a dormant state since an eruption in 1929, but on 2 September 2009 it was reported by Georgina Cooper for the Reuters news agency that the crater lake temperature had risen 10 degrees Celsius in a week and plumes of steam were rising from its flanks. The activity continued throughout 2010, with the formation of new fumaroles reported in November. Seismic activity and ash emission continued to build over the following weeks, and in January 2011 a hotspot was recorded, indicating the presence of lava. In early February 2011 the volcano sent a column of ash several kilometres high.
  In April 2011, it was reported that the volcanic activity and ash were threatening the endangered wild reindeer of the area.
  On 31 December 2012, following a 24-hour period of some 357 earthquakes reported under the volcano, Kizimen was raised to 'orange alert' status. An eruption was reported on 10 January 2013, with the ash plume reaching 4,200 m altitude.
context_section_description: Kizimen (Russian: Кизимен) is a stratovolcano in the southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.
  The volcano was in a dormant state since an eruption in 1929, but on 2 September 2009 it was reported by Georgina Cooper  for the Reuters news agency that the crater lake temperature had risen 10 degrees Celsius in a week and plumes of steam were rising from its flanks. The activity continued throughout 2010, with the formation of new fumaroles reported in November. Seismic activity and ash emission continued to build over the following weeks, and in January 2011 a hotspot was recorded, indicating the presence of lava. In early February 2011 the volcano sent a column of ash several kilometres high.
  In April 2011, it was reported that the volcanic activity and ash were threatening the endangered wild reindeer of the area.
  On 31 December 2012, following a 24-hour period of some 357 earthquakes reported under the volcano, Kizimen was raised to 'orange alert' status. An eruption was reported on 10 January 2013, with the ash plume reaching 4,200 m (13,800 ft) altitude.
  On December 7, 2013 activity at Kizimen and nearby Kliuchevskoi significantly increased, continued during November 29 - December 7, prompting KVERT to raise the Alert Level to Red. Ash plumes rose to altitudes of 5.5–6 km (18,000-19,700 ft) a.s.l. and drifted more than 212 km NE and over 1,000 km E. According to a news article, a warning to aircraft was issued for the area around the volcanoes. Video showed gas-and-steam activity, and satellite images detected a daily weak thermal anomaly. On December 9, the Alert Level was lowered to Green when the eruptions stopped.
  The volcano is not well understood, and research has indicated that the volcano could erupt in a similar fashion to the catastrophic 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens.
caption: Pyroclastic flow eruption of Kizimen in December 2010
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