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Mount Ontake

Ontakesan

Type
Complex volcano
Elevation
3067m
Last eruption
2014
Mount Ontake
Photo: Atsushi Ueda · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Type
Complex volcano
Country
Japan
Region
Western Pacific / Nankai Volcanic Arc
Elevation
3067m
Coordinates
35.893, 137.481
Last eruption
2014
Tectonic setting
Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Landform
Composite
Major rock type
Andesite / Basaltic andesite

Geological summary

The massive Ontakesan stratovolcano, the second highest volcano in Japan, lies at the southern end of the Northern Japan Alps.

Excerpt from the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution · Read the full summary on GVP →

From Wikipedia

Mount Ontake , also referred to as Mount Kiso Ontake , is the 14th-highest mountain and second-highest volcano in Japan at 3,067 m (10,062 ft). It is included in Kyūya Fukada's 1964 book 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.

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Eruption history

5 recordedGlossary

Record summary

Confirmed eruptions
4
Uncertain eruptions
1
Span of confirmed record
1979 – 2014
Largest confirmed eruption
VEI 3 (2014)
Confirmed eruptions since 1900
4
Summary (VEI over time)
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774~898 · 1 eruptions · max VEI ?1890~2014 · 4 eruptions · max VEI 37741022139416421890

Detailed timeline

  1. 2014VEI 3Observed
    2014-09-27 – 2014-10-14
    Summit crater
  2. 2007VEI 0Observed
    2007-03-24 – end unknown
    1979 Crater #7
  3. 1991VEI 0Observed
    1991-05-13 – 1991-05-16
    1979 Crater #7
  4. 1979VEI 2Observed
    1979-10-28 – 1980-04-25
    200 m SW of Kengamine
  5. 774VEI ?Method not stated
    774 – end unknown

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