Four New Cinder Cones from the Ongoing Tolbachik Eruption in Russia

The Tolbachik area, with multiple active volcanoes such as Bezymianny and Kliuchevskoi, seen from the International Space Station on January 6, 2013. Image: Commander Chris Hadfield. Sometimes, if an eruption just keeps on rolling, we start to lose track of it. For me, the Tolbachik eruption began to slip through the cracks, so I thought an update on the activity is in order. After nearly 7 weeks, the eruption at Tolbachik is still going strong. The latest KVERT report on the eruption says that it has produced four (!) new cinder cones on the flanks of the volcano and the lava flows continue to move away from the volcano on the western and southeastern flanks of the volcano. The plume from the volcano, still plainly visible on satellite images, continue to reach altitudes of ~4 km/13,100 feet above sea level. Interestingly, some reports mention that all this activity has started ...