No latest activity reported for Khangar.

Below is a summary of eruption dates and Volcanic Explosivity Indices (VEI).

The following references are the sources used for data regarding this volcano. References are linked directly to our volcano data file. Discussion of another volcano or eruption (sometimes far from the one that is the subject of the manuscript) may produce a citation that is not at all apparent from the title. Additional discussion of data sources can be found under Volcano Data Criteria.

Bazanova L I, Pevzner M M, 2001. Khangar: one more active volcano in Kamchatka. {Dokl Akad Nauk}, 377a: 307-309

Braitseva O A, Melekestsev I V, Ponomareva V V, Sulerzhitsky L D, 1995. Ages of calderas, large explosive craters and active volcanoes in the Kuril-Kamchatka region, Russia. {Bull Volc}, 57: 383-402

Erlich E N, 1986. Geology of the calderas of Kamchatka and Kurile Islands with comparison to calderas of Japan and the Aleutians, Alaska. {U S Geol Surv Open-File Rpt}, 86-291: 1-300

Erlich E N, Gorshkov G S (eds), 1979. Quaternary volcanism and tectonics in Kamchatka. {Bull Volc}, 42:1-4

IAVCEI, 1973-80. Post-Miocene Volcanoes of the World. {IAVCEI Data Sheets, Rome: Internatl Assoc Volc Chemistry Earth's Interior}.

Melekestsev I V, Braitseva O A, Bazanova L I, Ponomareva V V, Sulerzhitskiy L D, 1996. A particular type of catastrophic explosive eruptions with reference to the Holocene subcaldera eruptions at Khangar, Khodutka Maar, and Baraniy Amfiteatr volcanoes in Kamchatka. {Volc Seism}, 18: 135-160 (English translation)

Ogorodov N V, Kozhemyaka N N, Vazheevskaya A A, Ogorodov A S, 1972. {Volcanoes and the Quaternary Volcanism of the Sredinny Ridge in Kamchatka}. Moscow: Nauka Pub, 190 p (in Russian)

Vlasov G M, 1967. Kamchatka, Kuril, and Komandorskiye Islands: geological description. {In}: {Geol of the USSR}, Moscow, 31: 1-827

Khangar volcano, also spelled Hangar, is the southernmost volcano of the N-S-trending Sredinny Range, which stretches across western Kamchaktka. Khangar, which is the dominant feature within a larger volcano-tectonic depression, is composed of two parts--a stratovolcano with a 2-km-wide Holocene caldera and a large lava dome on its eastern flank. The steep-walled caldera, now filled by a lake, was formed during a major explosive eruption about 7000 years ago. An arcuate zone of pre-caldera flank lava domes nearly surrounds the volcano, and post-caldera domes form islands in the caldera lake. Late-stage olivine basalts were erupted along a NE-trending line in the southern part of the Khangar volcano-tectonic depression. The latest dated eruption from Khangar took place about 500 years ago and marks the youngest known eruption from the Sredinny Range volcanoes.