Report on Ebeko (Russia) — April 2004
Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, vol. 29, no. 4 (April 2004)
Managing Editor: Edward Venzke.
Research and preparation by Bob Andrews, Dave Charvonia.
Ebeko (Russia) Weak fuming and notes on Tatarinov, Chikurachki, and Fuss Peak
Please cite this report as:
Global Volcanism Program, 2004. Report on Ebeko (Russia) (Venzke, E., ed.). Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, 29:4. Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.BGVN200404-290380
Ebeko
Russia
50.686°N, 156.014°E; summit elev. 1103 m
All times are local (unless otherwise noted)
The last recorded eruption of Ebeko volcano was in 1991. Table 2 summarizes activity on Ebeko from February-April 2004 as reported by observers Leonid and Tatiana Kotenko (observations made on days when clouds did not obscure the volcano).
Table 2. A summary showing Ebeko activity for February-April 2004. Courtesy of Leonid and Tatiana Kotenko.
| Date | Activity level | Wind direction | Gas-steam plume (meters above crater) |
Comment |
| 08 Feb 2004 | Quiet | -- | -- | -- |
| 12 Feb 2004 | Quiet | -- | -- | -- |
| 23 Feb 2004 | -- | NW | -- | Strong smell of H2S |
| 03 Mar-04 Mar 2004 | -- | Weak to N | -- | |
| 12 Mar 2004 | -- | -- | -- | |
| 16 Mar-17 Mar 2004 | -- | -- | -- | |
| 26 Mar 2004 | -- | Strong to S | -- | -- |
| 29 Mar 2004 | Quiet | -- | -- | -- |
| 31 Mar 2004 | -- | N | -- | |
| 02 Apr 2004 | Quiet | -- | -- | -- |
| 12 Apr 2004 | -- | Strong to NE | -- | -- |
| 15 Apr 2004 | -- | N | -- | |
| 19 Apr 2004 | -- | -- | -- | |
| 28 Apr 2004 | -- | -- | -- | |
| 29 Apr 2004 | -- | Strong to N | -- | -- |
On 14 April 2004 a fishing craft reported a white gas plume emerging from Tatarinov volcano. That volcano lies near the opposite (southern) end of Paramushir Island. The plume came from Tatarinov's fumarolic field and remained at low altitude following the Tukharka river. Also in the southern part of Paramushir island, the volcanoes Chikurachki (last active 17-18 April 2003, SEAN 28:07) and Fuss Peak (SEAN 12:04) were both reported quiet.
Geological Summary. The flat-topped summit of the central cone of Ebeko volcano, one of the most active in the Kuril Islands, occupies the northern end of Paramushir Island. Three summit craters located along a SSW-NNE line form Ebeko volcano proper, at the northern end of a complex of five volcanic cones. Blocky lava flows extend west from Ebeko and SE from the neighboring Nezametnyi cone. The eastern part of the southern crater contains strong solfataras and a large boiling spring. The central crater is filled by a lake about 20 m deep whose shores are lined with steaming solfataras; the northern crater lies across a narrow, low barrier from the central crater and contains a small, cold crescentic lake. Historical activity, recorded since the late-18th century, has been restricted to small-to-moderate explosive eruptions from the summit craters. Intense fumarolic activity occurs in the summit craters, on the outer flanks of the cone, and in lateral explosion craters.
Information Contacts: Leonid and Tatiana Kotenko, Severo-Kurilsk, Paramushir Island; Olga A. Girina, Kamchatka Volcanic Eruptions Response Team (KVERT), a cooperative program of the Institute of Volcanic Geology and Geochemistry, Far East Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Piip Ave. 9, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683006, Russia, the Kamchatka Experimental and Methodical Seismological Department (KEMSD), GS RAS (Russia), and the Alaska Volcano Observatory (USA); Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO), a cooperative program of the U.S. Geological Survey, 4200 University Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508-4667, USA (URL: http://www.avo.alaska.edu/), the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, PO Box 757320, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320, USA, and the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, 794 University Ave., Suite 200, Fairbanks, AK 99709, USA.
