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  2. Sakurajima - Wikipedia

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    Tephra fell as far as 1,000 km (620 mi) from the volcano. Sakurajima is a modern active vent of the same Aira caldera volcano. Sakurajima was formed by later activity within the caldera, beginning about 13,000 years ago. [9] It is about 8 km (5 mi) south of the centre of the caldera. Its first eruption in recorded history was in 963 AD. [10]

  3. Volcano - Wikipedia

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    Augustine Volcano (Alaska) during its eruptive phase on January 24, 2006. A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

  4. Mount Usu - Wikipedia

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    Mount Usu (有珠山, Usu-zan [3]) is an active stratovolcano in the Shikotsu-Tōya National Park, Hokkaido, Japan.It has erupted four times since 1900: in 1910 (which created Meiji-shinzan [4]), 1944–45 (which created Shōwa-shinzan), August 7, 1977, [5] and on March 31, 2000.

  5. Volcanology - Wikipedia

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    The dashed trajectories are the result of lava pieces with a bright hot side and a cool dark side rotating in mid-air. Volcanology (also spelled vulcanology ) is the study of volcanoes , lava , magma and related geological , geophysical and geochemical phenomena ( volcanism ).

  6. Aira Caldera - Wikipedia

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    Aira caldera is one of the most active and hazardous calderas in the world. It is home to the Kirishima volcanoes, a group of active volcanoes at the north end of Aira caldera. One of these volcanoes, Shinmoedake, has produced two strong magmato-phreatic eruptions, separated by almost 300 years. Starting in December 2009, active diving and ...

  7. Askja - Wikipedia

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    Víti geothermal lake at Askja Askja and Víti (in the foreground). Askja (ⓘ) is an active volcano situated in a remote part of the central highlands of Iceland.The name Askja refers to a complex of nested calderas within the surrounding Dyngjufjöll [ˈtiɲcʏˌfjœtl̥] mountains, which rise to 1,514 m (4,967 ft), askja meaning box or caldera in Icelandic.

  8. Mount Schank - Wikipedia

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    Mount Schank is a 100 m (330 ft) high dormant volcano in the southeast corner of South Australia, near Mount Gambier.It was sighted by James Grant on 3 December 1800 and named after Admiral John Schank, designer of Grant's ship, HMS Lady Nelson.

  9. Mount Yasur - Wikipedia

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    Mount Yasur is a volcano on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, 361 m (1,184 ft) high above sea level, [2] on the coast near Sulphur Bay, northeast of the taller Mount Tukosmera, which was active in the Pleistocene. It has a largely unvegetated pyroclastic cone with a nearly circular summit crater 400 m in diameter. [1]