Japan: Activity at Sakurajima Volcano Intensifies

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Activity at Sakurajima Volcano Intensifies


acquired August 19, 2010

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<!-- AddThis Button END --><SCRIPT type=text/javascript> var addthis_options = 'email, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, live, twitter, stumbleupon, more'; var addthis_exclude = 'print'; var addthis_offset_top = 3; var addthis_offset_left = -9; var addthis_hover_delay = 400; var addthis_localize = { share_caption: "Share this image" }; // var addthis_config = { data_use_flash: false }; </SCRIPT><SCRIPT type=text/javascript src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=xa-4a5e804627659a64"></SCRIPT>By mid-August, Sakurajima Volcano?one of Japan?s most active?had erupted ash at least once every week during 2010. On August 19, 2010, an ash plume was sighted at 9,000 feet (2,700 meters), according to the Tokyo Volcanic Ash Advisory Center. This natural-color satellite image shows the gray plume moving west (towards image top) from the volcano?s summit. Simultaneously, a pyroclastic flow descended the eastern slopes.

Although Sakurajima?s activity since 1955 has been characterized by frequent small eruptions, the volcano still poses a danger to the densely-populated surroundings. Roughly 7,000 years ago Sakurajima erupted with a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 6, equivalent to the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo.


The image was acquired by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) aboard the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite.

1. References
2. Tokyo Volcanic Ash Advisory Center. (2010, August 19). Volcanic Ash Advisories. Accessed August 20, 2010.
3. USGS Global Volcanism Program. (2010, August). Sakura-jima. Accessed August 20, 2010.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using ALI data from the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Robert Simmon.


<DL class=details><DT>Instrument: <DD>EO-1 - ALI </DD></DL>http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=45388&src=nha