Volcanoes of Kamchatka

The highest volcano is Klyuchevskaya Sopka (4,750 m or 15,584 ft), the largest active volcano in the Northern Hemisphere,{{Cite web |url=http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/public-affairs/press-releases/index.phtml?menu=pressreleases&code=INT-113%2F08&create_date=27-may-2008 |title=Press Releases – Public Affairs Office – The University of Nottingham |access-date=2022-01-30 |archive-date=2009-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210015603/http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/public-affairs/press-releases/index.phtml?menu=pressreleases&code=INT-113%2F08&create_date=27-may-2008 |url-status=live }} while the most striking is Kronotsky, whose perfect cone was said by celebrated volcanologists Robert and Barbara Decker to be a prime candidate for the world's most beautiful volcano. Somewhat more accessible are the three volcanoes visible from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: Koryaksky, Avachinsky, and Kozelsky. In the center of Kamchatka is Eurasia's world-famous Geyser Valley which was partly destroyed by a massive mudslide in June 2007.{{cite web

|author = The World Wildlife Fund

|year = 2007

|url = http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,116385.shtml

|title = Natural Wonder of the World Transformed within Hours, says World Wildlife Fund

|publisher = Earth Times

|access-date = 2008-02-20

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Owing to the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench, deep-focus seismic events and tsunamis are fairly common. A pair of megathrust earthquakes occurred off the coast on October 16, 1737, and on November 4, 1952, in the magnitude of ~9.3 and 8.2 respectively.{{cite web

|url = http://www.bom.gov.au/info/tsunami/nov_1952.shtml

|title = The 4 November 1952 Kamchatka Earthquake and Tsunami

|publisher = Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology

|access-date = 2008-02-20

|archive-url = https://archive.today/20120721025622/http://www.bom.gov.au/info/tsunami/nov_1952.shtml

|archive-date = 21 July 2012

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}} A chain of more shallow earthquakes were recorded as recently as April 2006.{{cite web

|author = Earthquake Hazards Program

|year = 2006

|url = https://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2006/usltbt/

|title = Magnitude 7.6 – Koryakia, Russia

|publisher = US Geological Survey

|access-date = 2008-02-20

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080302141052/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2006/usltbt/

|archive-date = 2008-03-02

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• List of volcanoes in Russia

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• [http://www.kscnet.ru/ivs/volcanoes/holocene/main/main.htm Holocene Volcanoes in Kamchatka, Institute of Volcanology and Seismology Kamchatka, Russia]

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