Tsuruta volcano

Updated: Aug 11, 2022 19:38 GMT - Refresh

Pyroclastic cone(s) 301 m / 988 ft
Honshu, Japan, 35.34°N / 133.42°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Tsuruta 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

The Tsuruta volcano group consists of a group of scoria cones about 1.2 million years in age aligned NW-SE, including the Takatsuka-yama cone (Nakano et al., 2001-).
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information

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