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Chikurachki Volcano

April 5, 2007

In early April 2007, the Chikurachki Volcano on Paramushir Island, off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, released a plume of volcanic ash. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite took this picture on April 5. This image shows the volcano sending a dark plume of volcanic ash northward over the Sea of Okhotsk. Some volcanic ash has also stained the snowy white surface of the island.

Chikurachki Volcano is a stratovolcano composed of alternating layers of hardened lava, ash, and volcanic rocks. It is a fairly small volcano, but because it sits atop a high volcanic edifice constructed during the Pleistocene epoch, it is the highest volcano on Paramushir Island.

You can download a 250-meter-resolution Chikurachki KMZ file for use with Google Earth.

NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team.

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