Giappone · Caldera
Meakan
Akan
- Tipo
- Caldera
- Altitudine
- 1499 m
- Ultima eruzione
- 2026
- Tipo
- Caldera
- Paese
- Giappone
- Regione
- Pacifico nord-occidentale / Kuril Volcanic Arc
- Altitudine
- 1499 m
- Coordinate
- 43.386, 144.009
- Ultima eruzione
- 2026
- Contesto tettonico
- Zona di subduzione / Crosta continentale (> 25 km)
- Forma vulcanica
- Caldera
- Roccia principale
- Andesite / Andesite basaltica
Sintesi geologica
Akan is a 13 x 24 km caldera located immediately SW of Kussharo caldera in eastern Hokkaido. The elongated, irregular outline of the caldera rim reflects its incremental formation during major explosive eruptions from the early to mid-Pleistocene. There are four post-caldera stratovolcanoes, three at the SW end of the caldera and the other on the NE side. Conical Oakandake was frequently active during the Holocene. The 1-km-wide Nakamachineshiri crater of Meakandake was formed during a major pumice-and-scoria eruption about 13,500 years ago. The Meakandake group, composed of nine overlapping cones E of Lake Akan, has produced mild phreatic eruptions since the beginning of the 19th century. The main cone of Meakandake proper has a triple crater at its summit. Although recorded eruptions at Meakandake have consisted of minor phreatic explosions, four major magmatic eruptions with pyroclastic flows have also occurred during the Holocene.
Sintesi da Wikipedia
Riassunto in ingleseAkan Volcanic Complex is a volcanic group of volcanoes that grew out of the Akan caldera. It is located within Akan National Park, about 50 km Northwest of Kushiro in eastern Hokkaidō, Japan.
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Storia delle eruzioni
39 registrateGlossarioCronologia dettagliata
- 2026VEI ?Osservata2026-03-07 – 2026-03-14
- 2025VEI 1Osservata2025-09-15 – 2025-09-16
- 2008VEI 1Osservata2008-11-18 – 2008-11-28Me-Akan (Ponmachineshiri)
- 2006VEI 1Osservata2006-03-21 – 2006-03-21NE flank of Me-Akan
- 1998VEI 1Osservata1998-11-09 – 1998-11-09Me-Akan (Ponmachineshiri)
- 1996VEI 1Osservata1996-11-21 – 1996-11-21Me-Akan (Ponmachineshiri crater no. 4)
- 1988VEI 1Osservata1988-01-05 – 1988-02-18Me-Akan (SE rim of Ponmachineshiri)
- 1984VEI 1Osservata1984-05-01 – 1984-05-01Me-Akan (Ponmachineshiri)
- 1966VEI 1Osservata1966-06-15 – 1966-06-15Me-Akan (Nakamachineshiri)
- 1965VEI 1Osservata1965-05-15 – 1965-05-15Me-Akan (Nakamachineshiri)
- 1964VEI 1Osservata1964-06-18 – 1964-07-04Me-Akan (Nakamachineshiri)
- 1962VEI 1Osservata1962-04-28 – 1962-04-28Me-Akan (Nakamachineshiri)
- 1960VEI 1Osservata1960-09-16 – 1960-09-16Me-Akan (Ponmachineshiri)
- 1959VEI 1Osservata1959-05-15 – 1959-10-16Me-Akan (Naka- and Ponmachineshiri)
- 1958VEI 1Osservata1958-02-23 – 1958-02-23Me-Akan (Ponmachineshiri)
- 1957VEI 1Osservata1957-02-26 – 1957-09-05Me-Akan (Ponmachineshiri)
- 1956VEI 1Osservata1956-03-18 – 1956-10-31Me-Akan (Ponmachineshiri)
- 1955VEI 1Osservata1955-11-19 – 1955-11-19Me-Akan (Ponmachineshiri)
- 1954VEI 1Osservata1954-01-07 – 1954-04-13Me-Akan (Nakamachineshiri)
- 1951VEI 1Metodo non indicato1951-07-31 – 1952-03-16Me-Akan (NE foot)
- 1927VEI 1Metodo non indicato1927-04-16 – 1927-05-16Me-Akan
- 1808VEI ?Osservata1808-07-02 – fine sconosciutaMe-Akan
- 1780 (±75 anni)VEI 1Osservata1780 – fine sconosciutaMe-Akan
- 1600 (±50 anni)VEI ?Stima geologica1600 – fine sconosciutaMe-Akan
- 1550VEI ?Stima geologica1550 – fine sconosciutaMe-Akan
- 1250 (±300 anni)VEI ?Stima geologica1250 – fine sconosciutaMe-Akan (Ponmachineshiri)
- 950VEI ?Stima geologica950 – fine sconosciutaMe-Akan (Ponmachineshiri)
- 600 (±300 anni)VEI ?Stima geologica600 – fine sconosciutaAkan-Fuji
- 250VEI ?Stima geologica250 – fine sconosciutaAkan-Fuji
- 100 (±100 anni)VEI ?Stima geologica100 – fine sconosciutaAkan-Fuji
- 50 a.C.VEI 4Stima geologica50 a.C. – fine sconosciutaAkan-Fuji
- 300 a.C. (±100 anni)VEI ?Stima geologica300 a.C. – fine sconosciutaAkan-Fuji
- 550 a.C.VEI ?Stima geologica550 a.C. – fine sconosciutaAkan-Fuji
- 800 a.C. (±250 anni)VEI ?Stima geologica800 a.C. – fine sconosciutaMe-Akan (Ponmachineshiri)
- 2050 a.C.VEI ?Stima geologica2050 a.C. – fine sconosciutaKita-yama, Me-Akan (Ponmachineshiri)
- 3050 a.C.VEI ?Stima geologica3050 a.C. – fine sconosciutaNishi-yama, O-Akan
- 3550 a.C. (±500 anni)VEI 3Stima geologica3550 a.C. – fine sconosciutaMe-Akan (Nakamachineshiri)
- 4550 a.C. (±500 anni)VEI ?Stima geologica4550 a.C. – fine sconosciutaMe-Akan (Ponmachineshiri)
- 7050 a.C.VEI 4Stima geologica7050 a.C. – fine sconosciutaMe-Akan (Nakamachineshiri)
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