Mount Ontake Flashcards
1
Q
What?
A
A strata volcano: layers of ash and lava, explosive, fast-flowing, gas, volcanic bombs, pyroclastic flow
2
Q
When?
A
27th September 2014, 11.52am
3
Q
Where?
A
3067m high, Honshu Island, west of Tokyo, Japan
4
Q
Who?
A
50 deaths, 300 hurt and rescued, 200 outran pyroclastic flow
5
Q
Why?
A
Pacific plate and Philippine plates are moving under the Eurasian plate, creating a subduction zone. This forms volcanoes.
6
Q
Prediction
A
Some seismic activity, not though to erupt, sudden eruption, been inactive since 1979
