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Daikon-jima volcano

Updated: Aug 16, 2022 03:52 GMT - Refresh

Pyroclastic cone 42 m / 138 ft
Honshu, Japan, 35.49°N / 133.17°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Daikon-jima volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
Lastest nearby earthquakes: No recent earthquakes

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Background

A scoria cone and lava flow at Daikon-jima was erupted about 250,000 or 200,000 years ago (Nakano et al., 2001-).
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information

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