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Eruption of the Bezymianni volcano

By Scott Bachmeier •

Himawari-8 Ash Cloud Height product [click to play animation]

Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images and Ash Cloud Height product [click to play animation]

The Bezymianni volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula erupted at 0345 UTC on 20 December 2017 — an animation of Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images and retrieved Ash Cloud Height product from the NOAA/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring site (above) indicated that the ash reached heights of 18 km (the Tokyo VAAC estimated the ash height to be 50,000 feet or 15.2 km).

An oblique view using GOES-15 (GOES-West) Visible (0.63 µm) images (below) provided a different perspective of the volcanic cloud immediately following the eruption. The surface report from Shemya (PASY), located in the far western portion of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, is plotted in the lower right corner of the images.

GOES-15 Visible (0.63 µm) images [click to enlarge]

GOES-15 Visible (0.63 µm) images [click to enlarge]

Categories: GOES-15, Himawari-8, Volcanic activity