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Kopkan volcano

Shield(s) 1120 m / 3675 ft
Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, 56.48°N / 158.83°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5) | Reports
Kopkan volcano books
Typical eruption style: unspecified
Kopkan volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene) No recent earthquakes
TimeMag. / DepthDistanceLocation

Background:

Late-Pleistocene Icelandic-type shield volcano; the Krugelenky shield to the NE along the regional NE-SW trend is listed with Kapkan volcano (Erlich 1985, pers. comm.).
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information


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