Sakurajima

GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION

• It in Asia and on the Pacific Ocean.
• In the country of Japan.
• Its tectonic plates that it is on are Pacific, Eurasian, and Philippine plates.
• Its a convergent boundary.
• It is caused by subduction.

CLASSIFICATION OF VOLCANO

• Mount Sakurajima is a active composite volcano.
• Sakurajima has explosive eruptions.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION/ FACTS

• Japan chart for Sakurajima, Green, volcano is dormant; normal seismic activity Yellow, volcano is restless; eruption may occur Orange, in eruption or one may occur at any time Level 3: significant local eruption in progress Level 4: hazardous local eruption in progress Red, explosive eruption
• Thousands of small eruptions occur in one year.
• Nearly 680,000 residents live near the mountain

HAZARDS/RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE VOLCANO

• It throws volcanic bombs hundreds of feet from the volcano.
• Huge clouds of volcanic ash that maybe deadly to the people of Kagoshima.

CONCLUSION

• I think in the future there will be many small eruptions, but only a few big eruptions.
• Because in the past there has only been smaller ones and very little bigger eruptions.