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sanji
Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:19 pm

Volcanoes and volcanic activity [E]
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Japan, a country located on the Pacific Rim, has one of the highest density of volcanoes in the world. Most of them are found in Hokkaido, on islands south of Tokyo and on Kyushu.

A small map with the main volcanoes in Japan :
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Gif/Japan/Maps/map_japan_volcanoes.gif
Source : http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Gif/Japan/Maps/map_japan_volcanoes.gif


109 volcanoes are considered to be in activity or sleeping. The list is available on the GREEN - Alert Level 0 : Volcano is dormant, normal seismic & fumarolic activity
YELLOW - Alert Level 1 : Volcano is restless; eruption may occur
ORANGE - Alert Levels 2,3 et 4 : Volcano is in eruption or eruption may occur at any time
RED - Level Alert 5 : Significant eruption is occurring or explosive eruption is
expected at any time


Updated 14 January 2010 : 18 volcanoes are active in Japan, all with the status GREEN, except:

ORANGE : 

YELLOW (JAUNE) : 
- none -


Those are the volcanoes that are potentially the most "interesting" to approach.

Even more comprehensive, the [url=http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/current_volcs/current.html]Volcano World – Current Volcanic Activity web site lists all the recent news for volcanoes from all around the world.

Finally, on this site [url=http://homepage3.nifty.com/hyamasat/eruption.html]page the list of all eruptions in Japan since 1900 is available, as well as the associated human cost.