{"id":66245,"date":"2025-08-02T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=66245"},"modified":"2025-08-05T18:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:56:25","slug":"first-recorded-eruption-of-krasheninnikov-on-the-kamchatka-peninsula-of-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/66245","title":{"rendered":"First recorded eruption of Krasheninnikov on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 2022px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/08\/250802_himawari9_ashHeight_Krasheninnikov.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/08\/250802_2340utc_himawari9_ashHeight_Krasheninnikov.png\" width=\"2012\" height=\"1644\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-9 Ash Height derived product [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A radiometrically retrieved Himawari-9 Ash Height product from the <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.ssec.wisc.edu\/\"><strong>NOAA\/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the volcanic cloud produced by the first recorded eruption of Krasheninnikov on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia, which began around 1650 UTC on 02 August 2025 (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/08\/250803_kvert_vona_Krasheninnikov.png\"><strong>KVERT advisory<\/strong><\/a>). The Ash Height reached the 7-8 km range (darker shade of green) at times.<\/p>\n<p>A Himawari-9 Ash Loading product <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that portions of the volcanic cloud occasionally contained fairly high levels of ash loading (shades of red).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 2022px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/08\/250802_himawari9_ashLoading_Krasheninnikov.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/08\/250803_0230utc_himawari9_ashLoading_Krasheninnikov.png\" width=\"2012\" height=\"1638\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-9 Ash Loading derived product [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Himawari-9 <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/GOES_Ash_RGB-1.pdf\"><strong>Ash RGB<\/strong><\/a> images produced using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/geo2grid\/\"><strong>Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> suggested that the volcanic cloud was composed of both primarily ash (shades of red\/pink) and a mixture of ash and SO<sub>2<\/sub> (shades of yellow).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/08\/Himawari-9_FLDK_ash_2025214_170000_2025215_060000.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/08\/Himawari-9_AHI_FLDK_ash_2025215_015000Z.png\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-9 Ash RGB images [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2025\/08\/Himawari-9_FLDK_ash_2025214_170000_2025215_060000.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Incredible video of The FIRST HISTORICALLY RECORDED ERUPTION of Krasheninnikov Volcano in Kamchatka, Russia.<br><br>Scientists think it may have been triggered by the M8.8 earthquake that struck off the coast of Kamchatka, Russia on 30 July 2025, at 11:24:52 local time.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1ZQcZxSs1G\">pic.twitter.com\/1ZQcZxSs1G<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Volcaholic ? (@volcaholic1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/volcaholic1\/status\/1951934758197359051?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A radiometrically retrieved Himawari-9 Ash Height product from the NOAA\/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring site (above) showed the volcanic cloud produced by the first recorded eruption of Krasheninnikov on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia, which began around 1650 UTC on 02 August 2025 (KVERT advisory). The Ash Height reached the 7-8 km range (darker shade of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":66254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,73,45,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geo2grid","category-himawari-9","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-volcanic-activity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66245"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66261,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66245\/revisions\/66261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}