1996 Karymskoye Lake eruption

A sublacustrine, Surtseyan-type eruption in Karymskoye caldera lake on 2 and 3 January included a series of underwater explosions. The lake is a nearly circular body of water on Kamchatka, about 4 km across and up to 60 m deep, and the waves came from the explosions within it.

Date and time (UTC)

1996-01-02T15:40

Highest recorded water height (m)

30

Cause, as the catalogue records it

volcano

NCEI event page

www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/tsunami/event-more-info/2392

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: volcano, caldera lake, kamchatka, russia

Coordinates: 54.05, 159.43

Part of Tsunamis with waves of 15 metres or more from 1950 to 1999

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