Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka
Tolbachik is a complex of two merged volcanoes Sharp Tolbachik (3682 m) and Flat Tolbachik (3140 m). The latter is valid. The most famous and powerful eruption (the Great Fractured Tolbachin eruption) occurred in 1975, which was accompanied by the formation of new cinder cones, lava fields and a caldera at the top on the site of the crater. In 2012, a new fractured eruption occurred, accompanied by explosions and an outpouring of liquid lava at 17 km.
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The landscapes around Tolbachik are unique – the Great Fractured Tolbachin eruption, which lasted 17 months, covered many kilometers with slag, pastures and deciduous forests were destroyed. Now it is called the Dead Forest. At sunset, the landscapes resemble Martian photographs.
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Seismologists report that magma is shifting towards the neighboring extinct Bolshaya Udina Sopka, which is beginning to "wake up". A catastrophic explosive magma breakthrough is potentially possible in it.
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