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Kunlun Volcano

Updated: 28. Mär. 2024 17:15 GMT -
pyroclastic cones 5808 m / 19,055 ft
Tibet, China, 35.52°N / 80.2°E
Aktueller Status: normal / ruhend (1 von 5)
Last update: 6 Mär 2022 (SO2 cloud detected on 10 Mar 2021)

Kunlun volcano is a group of about 70 fresh-looking cinder cones in NW Tibet. Although the cones are not very large, thanks to its location in the Tibetan Plateau, Kunlun is the highest volcano in the northern hemisphere.
An eruption occurred 1951 at Ashi Shan cone, marking the latest volcanic activity in China.

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Typische Aktivität: strombolian
Ausbrüche des Kunlun: 1951, uncertain reports about an eruption in the 19th century

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Beschreibung

The Kunlun volcano group comprises the trachyandesitic Ashikule volcano group at the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. At least 10 of the cones are Pliocene-to-Holocene age, including the Ashi Shan volcano, the youngest in China, which erupted in 1951.
This and several other young cones lie in the area around Ashi (Aqqikkol) and Wuluke (Ulugkol) lakes.

Ausbrüche des Vulkans Kunlun



1951 eruption
China's most recent volcanic eruption occurred on 27 May 1951 from the Ashi Shan (also known as Ka-er-daxi or Vulkan) cinder cone, part of the Kunlun volcanic group in NW Tibet.
The eruption began with a loud detonation and ejected large blocks, emitting "smoke" for a number of days.

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News
Mi, 10. Mär 2021, 20:22

SO2 cloud detected in the area of Kunlun volcano, Tibet - could it be from a volcanic eruption?

Detected SO2 cloud in the area of Kunlun volcano, NW Tibet (image: SACS)
Update: It appears that the SO2 plume is from one of the recent paroxysms at Etna volcano. There is no sign of unusual activity at Kunlun volcano. ... Read all

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