Daikoku volcano
Updated: Jun 8, 2023 02:26 GMT -
submarine volcano -323 m / -1,060 ft
Volcano Islands (Japan), 21.32°N / 144.19°E
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
Volcano Islands (Japan), 21.32°N / 144.19°E
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
Last update: 29 May 2016 (underwater eruption discovered on 14 Dec 2014)
Daikoku is a sumbarine volcano with a conical summit in the Japanese Volcano Islands chain. It sits on an elongated E-W-trending ridge SE of Eifuku submarine volcano and rises to within 323 m of the sea surface. It has a crater with a black pool of liquid sulfur discovered in 2006.
Daikoku submarine volcano is one of about a dozen submarine volcanoes displaying hydrothermal activity in the southern part of the Izu-Marianas chain.
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Daikoku volcano eruptions: 2014
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A steep-walled, 50-m-wide cylindrical crater on the north flank, about 75 m below the summit, is at least 135 m deep and was observed to emit cloudy hydrothermal fluid. During a NOAA expedition in 2006, scientists observed a convecting, black pool of liquid sulfur with a partly solidified, undulating sulfur crust at a depth of 420 m below the summit of Daikoku. Gases, particulate with the appearance of smoke, and liquid sulfur were bubbling up from the back edge of the sulfur pool.(Smithsonian / GVP volcano information)
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