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  1. Sakurajima Case Study

    Sakurajima Case Study. This case study has been developed to support students studying Edexcel B GCSE Geography. Japan is located on a convergent plate boundary where the Eurasian plate is subducted by the Pacific and Philipinnes plates, causing a series of volcanoes. Sakurajima, Japan's most active volcano, is located on the southern island ...

  2. Underwater Volcano Forms New Island in Japan

    An Undersea Volcano Is Building a New Island in Japan An ongoing eruption from the volcano has created a small land mass less than a mile off Iwo Jima island. It's a great case study of how ...

  3. 2014 Mount Ontake eruption: characteristics of the ...

    The results of this study show that, in the case of phreatic eruptions, there is a window of several tens-of-seconds before the first cluster of ballistic ejecta arrives. ... Suzuki-Kamata K (2005) Chronology and products of the 2000 eruption of Miyakejima Volcano, Japan. Bulletin of Volcanology 67:205-218. Article Google Scholar

  4. What Caused the Fatal 2014 Eruption of Japan's Mount Ontake?

    Columns of smoke rise from Mount Ontake, a volcano in central Japan, in the late afternoon of 27 September 2014. The volcano erupted shortly before noon the same day. ... In this study, the ...

  5. Activated volcanism of Mount Fuji by the 2011 Japanese large ...

    The relation between earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, each of which is manifested by large-scale tectonic plate and mantle motions, has been widely discussed. Mount Fuji, in Japan, last erupted ...

  6. Frontiers

    Comparative Petrological Studies of 1962 and 1988-1989 Eruptions of Tokachidake Volcano, Japan: A Case Study for Understanding the Relationship Between Eruption Style and Magma Processes. J. Disast. Res. 14:5. doi: 10.20965/jdr.2019.p0766. CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar.

  7. The 2014 Eruption of Mt. Ontake Volcano and Its Disaster

    1 Introduction. Mt. Ontake volcano erupted at 11:52 on September 27, 2014 claiming the lives of more than 58. The good weather condition in the midday of a weekend gathered more than 300 hikers in the summit area at the time of the eruption, contributed to the large death toll.

  8. Explaining Surprise Eruption of Japan Volcano Where Dozens are Presumed

    Located about 125 miles (200 kilometers) west of Tokyo, Ontake is one of many volcanoes popular with hikers in Japan ... as appears to be the case in this event. Since 1979, steam has regularly ...

  9. A quantitative approach to the 2014 Mt. Ontake volcanic eruption news

    This paper studies the news coverage of the 2014 Mt. Ontake eruption disaster from 2015 to 2019, and the public response to the fifth anniversary coverage. Information on the issues regarding the risk of low-frequency disaster events such as volcanic eruption is brought into the public largely through the media. Unless there is a volcano nearby, there are few opportunities to discuss volcanic ...

  10. Japan's Volcanic Research in Distress: Ontake Eruption Exposes the Dire

    The number of volcanoes in Japan recognized as active grew to 110, and the once-common expression shi-kazan, or "extinct volcano," was removed from the lexicon of Japanese volcanology. These ...

  11. Japan: Mount Fuji report doubles estimate of lava flow

    A new hazard map drawn up to prepare local residents for a possible eruption of Japan's Mount Fuji warns that earlier ... of risk should the volcano erupt, up from 15 in the previous study.

  12. Japan's Sakurajima volcano erupts, prompting highest alert

    Japan's Sakurajima volcano, located on the island of Kyushu, erupted on Sunday, prompting evacuations in the region.. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said the volcano erupted around 8:05 p ...

  13. MT Ontake 2014

    case study mt ontake 2014 volcano eruption case study where and when? volcanic eruption of mount ontake took place on september 27, 2014. mount ontake is. Skip to document ... like all volcanoes in Japan, is part of the Ring of Fire, a string of volcanoes roughly circling the Pacific Ocean. Central Japan lies near the boundary of the Eurasian ...

  14. Permeability-control on volcanic hydrothermal system: case study for Mt

    We investigate a volcanic hydrothermal system by using numerical simulation with three key observables as reference: the magnetic total field, vent temperature, and heat flux. We model the shallow hydrothermal system of Mt. Tokachidake, central Hokkaido, Japan, as a case study. At this volcano, continuous demagnetization has been observed since at least 2008, suggesting heat accumulation ...

  15. Hikers killed by Japanese volcano left poignant pictures of final

    Photograph: AP/Kyodo News. Construction company employee Izumi Noguchi, 59, was climbing alone, as his usual hiking companion, his wife Hiromi, had to work, she told Japanese broadcaster NHK and ...

  16. Exploring the Base of the Volcano: A Case Study of an Active

    It is very important to explore the base of large volcanoes because older volcanoes with distinct petrological characteristics are sometimes hidden behind them. Such older volcanoes provide keys to investigate the change of magma genesis and tectonic setting during geological time. We newly found an older volcano in southern part of Zao volcano, located in Japan.

  17. Tourists' behavior for volcanic disaster risk reduction: A case study

    In addition to the aforementioned studies, we previously conducted a preliminary study of tourists' awareness of disaster preparedness, as well as disaster information communication, during the 2018 eruption of Japan's Kusatsu-Shirane volcano [31]. This preliminary study focused on skiers stranded near the volcano's summit after a sudden ...

  18. Case Study

    Location: The earthquake struck 250 miles off the northeastern coast of Japan's Honshu Island at 2:46 pm (local time) on March 11, 2011. Japan 2011 Earthquake map. Magnitude: It measured 9.1 on the Moment Magnitude scale, making it one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded. Japan is a highly developed country with advanced ...

  19. Exposure to Volcanic Hazards, and Influence on Perception: A Case Study

    A Case Study in Japan, Ten Years After the Unzen Fugendake Eruption *Gomez Christopher *: corresponding author : [email protected] / ... Japan's greatest volcanic disaster (Mount Mayuyama): in 1792 around 15.000 people were killed by a massive landslide from Mount Maruyama which devastated Shimabara city, and entering in the sea ...

  20. Exploring the Base of the Volcano: A Case Study of an Active

    Zao volcano is an active stratovolcano in the volcanic front of the northeastern Japan (Figure 1). Its volcanic activity started approximately 1 Ma [8, 9] and comprised andesitic stratovolcano [10 ...

  21. Volcano Risk Management in Japan: A Case Study of Mt Sakurajima

    Volcano Risk Management in Japan: A Case Study of Mt Sakurajima. Sakurajima is located in the Aira caldera and formed in an enormous eruption 22,000 years ago. The 1914 eruption was the most powerful in twentieth-century Japan. Lava flows filled the narrow strait between the island and the mainland, turning it into a peninsula.

  22. Tourists' behavior for volcanic disaster risk reduction: A case study

    This study seeks to determine whether people who had visited Mount Aso—one of the active volcanoes in Japan—had taken any self-protective measures. ... actions. Based on the literature review, we identified our research questions and hypothesis. Focusing on Mount Aso in Japan as a case study, we conducted an online questionnaire survey ...

  23. CASE STUDY: Mt. Ontake, Japan

    - A strato-volcano - Situated 200km west of Tokyo on Japan's largest island, Honshu - Rises over 3000m, summit is often snow-covered - Been dormant for many centuries until a sequence of eruptions between 1979 and 1980 - Further eruptions followed in 1991 and 2007 - Area popular with climbers and trekkers - A noted tourist destination with various facilities e.g. a lodge close to the summit ...

  24. Survey Maps Biggest Volcano Eruption In The Past 11,700 Years

    In their study, the geoscientists report that an eruption that happened 7,300 years ago ejected a large amount of volcanic products like ash and pumice, causing the collapse of the volcano and ...