Sakurajima photograph

Sakurajima

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Last eruptionAugust 2017
Elevation 1117
Did you knowLava flows are rare in Japan–the high silica content of the magmas there mean that explosive eruptions are far more common but the lava flows at Sakurajima continued for months.
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About Sakurajima


Sakurajima is an active composite volcano, formerly an island and now a peninsula, in Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan. The lava flows of the 1914 eruption connected it with the Ōsumi Peninsula. It is the most active volcano in Japan.

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