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Tsuruta volcano

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