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Data from the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution
Details for: Myokosan
Myoko, located in west-central Honshu, has a 3-km-wide caldera that is partially filled by a summit lava dome. Several edifice collapse events at Myoko have produced major debris avalanches that traveled to the E and NE. Photo by Yukio Hayakawa, 1998 (Gunma University).
Volcano Number:
283100
Volcano Name:
Myokosan
Country:
Japan
Volcano Type:
Stratovolcano
Last Eruption:
750 BCE
Elevation:
2454m
Tectonic Setting:
Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Pop. within 5km:
1563
Pop. within 10km:
11033
Pop. within 30km:
561142
Pop. within 100km:
4118863
Latitude:
36.891
Longitude:
138.114
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Myokosan is a steep-sided basaltic-to-dacitic stratovolcano north of Nagano City that overlooks Lake Nojiri below its SE flank. A 3-km-wide caldera breached widely to the east is filled by a flat-topped lava dome that forms the summit. It was constructed during four stages beginning about 300,000 years ago, each evolving from basaltic to andesitic and dacitic eruptions. The latest eruptive stage began about 43,000 years ago. Several episodes of edifice collapse during the late Pleistocene to early Holocene have produced major debris avalanches that traveled to the E and NE. Pyroclastic flows traveled down the eastern flanks during the mid-Holocene about 5,800 and 4,200 years ago, and the latest dated eruption produced pyroclastic surges about 2,800-2,500 years ago. Constant solfataric activity occurs between the dome and the south caldera wall at a place where sulfur was once mined.
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