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    Mount Unzen (雲仙岳, Unzen-dake) is an active volcanic group of several overlapping stratovolcanoes, near the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki on the island of...
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    The 1792 Unzen landslide and tsunami resulted from the volcanic activities of Mount Unzen (in the Shimabara Peninsula of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan) on...
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    French volcanologists and filmmakers who died in a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen, Nagasaki, Japan, on 3 June 1991. The Kraffts became well known as pioneers...
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    31 km2 (82.75 sq mi). Unzen is located on the northern tip of Shimabara Peninsula, facing Ariake Bay in the east and Mount Unzen to the south. Parts of...
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    roads and boat landings. On 21 May 1792, a flank of the Mayamaya dome of Mount Unzen collapsed after two large earthquakes. This had been preceded by a series...
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    before the eruption. In 1991, while conducting avalanche research on Mount Unzen in Japan, Glicken and fellow volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft...
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  • UNESCO. "ASTER Images Mt. Usu Volcano". NASA. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Mount Unzen". Britannica. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Accessed 17 July...
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  • Maurice Krafft, who were killed on June 3, 1991, by a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen, in Japan. The film is a celebration of the imagery captured by volcanologists...
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    Prefectures, Japan. Established in 1934, the park derives its name from Mount Unzen, an active volcano at the middle of the Shimabara Peninsula, and the...
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  • the Aira Caldera, Kikai Caldera and Aso Caldera. Mount Aso is the largest active volcano in Japan. Mount Aso had four eruptions 300,000 to 90,000 years...
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    Unzen Onsen is a geothermally heated volcanic hot spring field in the Unzen Mountains in Nagasaki prefecture in Japan. It was known of for many years...
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    Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved August 8, 2017. "Mount Unzen eruption of 1792 | Japanese history". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived...
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    evacuated, fearing a major eruption. The long eruption of Mount Sinabung is similar to that of Mount Unzen in Japan, which erupted for five years after lying...
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    Obama, Nagasaki (category Unzen, Nagasaki)
    create the city of Unzen. Located at the foot of Mount Unzen, the area is famous for volcanic hot springs (onsen) named Obama Onsen and Unzen Onsen. 32°43′19″N...
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    Teide (redirect from Mount Teide)
    surges similar to those that occurred at Mount Pelée, Merapi, Vesuvius, Etna, the Soufrière Hills, Mount Unzen and elsewhere. During 2003, there was an...
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  • "Karangetang [Api Siau]". 24 April 2011. "Unzen". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. "Mount Unzen". Britannica. The Editors of Encyclopaedia...
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    Kashima serve as the venue for the Gatalympics, a novelty sports event. Mount Unzen overlooks the Ariake Sea; the Arie River, which has its source on the...
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    volcanologists Harry Glicken and Katia and Maurice Krafft and 40 other people on Mount Unzen, in Japan, on June 3, 1991. The surge started as a pyroclastic flow and...
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    Peninsula, facing Ariake Bay in the east and Mount Unzen (including Fugendake) in the west. Nagasaki Unzen Minamishimabara Shimabara has a humid subtropical...
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    the first fatal volcanic eruption in Japan since the 1991 eruption at Mount Unzen, and the deadliest volcanic eruption in Japan since Torishima killed...
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    Kirishima Mount Kujū, stratovolcano Sakurajima, Somma-stratovolcano Lake Sumiyoshi [ja] Yonemaru [ja] Mount Tsurumi and Mount Garan, lava dome Mount Unzen, complex...
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    Philippines Teide, Canary Islands, Spain Ulawun, New Britain, Papua New Guinea Mount Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan Vesuvius, Naples, Italy The Deep Earth Carbon...
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    assessment activity at Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, Mount Redoubt in the United States, Mount Bandai, Mount Unzen, and Mount Ontake in Japan, and...
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    respectively), died at Mount Unzen in Japan, 1991 Peter Francis (1944–1999) David A. Johnston (1949–1980), killed during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens Harry...
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  • Koma-ga-take in 1640, Mount Unzen in 1792, Augustine Volcano in 1883, Ritter Island in 1888, Paluweh in 1928, Iliwerung in 1979, Mount St. Helens in 1980...
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    volcanoes known collectively as Mount Unzen lies in the middle of the peninsula, with many hot springs, such as Unzen Onsen and the extremely hot Obama...
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    while the Unzen eruptions have caused deaths and considerable local damage in the historic past, the impact of the June 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo...
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  • died on 3 June 1991 in a pyroclastic flow produced by the eruption of Mount Unzen in Japan. Van Syckle, Katie. "What We Learned from Werner Herzog's New...
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    1946–1991, respectively), died at Mount Unzen in Japan, 1991 David A. Johnston (1949–1980), killed during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens Harry Glicken (1958–1991)...
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