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Kikai volcano, Islas Ryukyu, Japón: news & activity updates

Updated: 23 abr. 2024 21:10 GMT-

Kikai volcano (Ryukyu Islands, Japan) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 26 July-1 August 2023 (New Activity / Unrest)

mié, 2 ago 2023, 18:00
JMA reported that minor eruptive activity was recorded at Satsuma Iwo-jima, a subaerial part of Kikai's NW caldera rim, during 24-31 July. White gas-and-steam plumes rose 600 m above the crater rim. Surveillance cameras observed nightly incandescence. Read all

Kikai volcano (Ryukyu Islands, Japan) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 29 March-4 April 2023 (New Activity / Unrest)

mié, 5 abr 2023, 14:00
JMA reported that minor eruptive activity was recorded at Satsuma Iwo-jima, a subaerial part of Kikai's NW caldera rim, during 27 March-3 April. White gas-and-steam plumes rose 700 m above the crater rim. Surveillance cameras observed nightly incandescence. Read all
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Kikai volcano
caldera 704 m / 2,310 ft
Islas Ryukyu (Japón), 30.79°N / 130.31°E
Current status: restless (2 out of 5) Erupciones del volcán Kikai:
2020, 2019, 2013, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2000-01, 2000, 1998-99, 1997, 1988, 1934-35, 1914 (?)
radiocarbon / tephrochronology dated: 1430 ± 75 years, 1340 ± 30, 1030 ± 40, 1010 ± 40, 750 AD (?), 390 AD ± 100, 280 BC ± 75, 1090 BC ± 100, 1830 BC ± 75, 2450 BC ± 1000, 3250 BC ± 75, 3250 BC ± 75
around 4350 BC: VEI 7 caldera-forming eruption, one of the largest on earth in 10,000 years, producing the Akahoya tephra
Typical eruption style
explosive
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