The #Sakurajima #Volcano, located east of Kagoshima, erupted July 17, sending smoke and ash into the atmosphere.
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has issued an ash advisory for the area following the #eruption. The JMA has forecast moderate ashfall near the volcano and a low ash fall probability from the volcano eastwards through early July 18.
Sakurajima erupts almost daily, with tiny plumes. It does erupt 300-500 times a year, with 100-200 of those eruptions being quite large.
Before the Taisho eruption in 1914, Sakurajima was a volcanic island in Kagoshima Bay, but the eastern lava flow filled the Seto strait and connected the island to the Osumi peninsula. Sakurajima is now an irregular oval-shaped small peninsula
There are 3 peaks in total, with two main craters (although the larger is of two ending up conjoined): Minamidake crater and the Shōwa crater. I thought there was a third (there is, just popped and is technically part of the larger one).
The active calderas are AIRA, which is a 25 km (15 mi)-wide caldera, formed in an enormous “blow-out-and-cave-in” eruption around 22,000 years ago.
Then there’s the WAKAMIKO Caldera.
Pyroclastic flows are known to happen and there’s also the possibility of lahars.
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#climatechange #globalwarming
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