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Mount Hakone

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Mountain type
  
Complex calderas

Elevation
  
1,438 m

Last eruption
  
June to July 2015

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Location
  
Hakone, Kanagawa, Honshu

Similar
  
Kamiyamahakoneyama, Mount Ashigara, Mt Ashitaka, Mount Fuji, Mount Ontake

6 30 2015 hasn t erupted in 800 years mount hakone spews ash japan issues new warnings


Mount Hakone (箱根山, Hakoneyama) is a complex volcano in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan that is truncated by two overlapping calderas, the largest of which is 10 × 11 km wide. The calderas were formed as a result of two major explosive eruptions about 180,000 and 49,000–60,000 years ago. Lake Ashi lies between the southwestern caldera wall and a half dozen post-caldera lava domes that arose along a southwest–northeastern trend cutting through the center of the calderas. Dome growth occurred progressively to the south, and the largest and youngest of them, Kami-yama, forms the high point of Hakone. The calderas are breached to the east by the Haya-kawa canyon. Mount Ashigara is a parasitic cone.

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Map of Mt. Hakone, Motohakone, Hakone, Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa Prefecture 250-0522, Japan

The latest magmatic eruptive activity at Hakone occurred 2,900 years ago. It produced a pyroclastic flow and a lava dome in the explosion crater, although phreatic eruptions took place as recently as the 12–13th centuries AD.

References

Mount Hakone Wikipedia