This document discusses 9 active volcanoes located in southern Japan on the island of Kyushu. The volcanoes discussed are Tsurumi, Kuju, Aso, Unzen, Fukue-jima, Kirishima, Sumiyoshi-ike, Sakurajima, and Ibusuku. Key details provided on each volcano include their type, location, eruptive history, and notable features. The largest, Aso volcano, contains one of the world's largest calderas, measuring 25 km by 18 km. Sakurajima volcano near Kagoshima city is considered one of the most active in the world, frequently erupting and depositing ash on the city.

1. Volcanoes
In Southern
Japan
Presented by:
Ayesha Iqbal
8-D

2. Volcanoes In Southern
Japan
Kyushu (9 volcanoes):
1. Tsurumi
2. Kuju
3. Aso
4. Unzen
5. Fukue-jima
6. Kirishima
7. Sumiyoshi-ike
8. Sakurajima
9. Ibusuku

3. Tsurumi
Tsurumi volcano is a group of lava
domes near the hot spring resort city
of Beppu, Honshu Island, Japan.
The main features are 2 large domes
called Tsurumi (1374 m) and Yufu
(1584 m) on the east and west end of
the complex.
Only a single eruption, from Tsurumi in
867 AD, is known in historical time. The
colorful hot spring pools and mudpots
of Beppu along the coast form one of
Japan's most noted thermal areas.

4. KUJU
Kuju volcano is a group
of active
stratovolcanoes and
lava domes in the
northeastern corner of
the large Aso caldera in
central Kyushu, Japan.
Kuju contains many hot
springs and hydrothermal
fields and there are 2
geothermal power
plants.

5. ASO VOLCANO
Mount Aso is the largest active
volcano in Japan, and is among
the largest in the world. It stands
in Aso Kujū National Park in
Kumamoto Prefecture, on the
island of Kyūshū. Its peak is 1592
m above sea level. Aso has one
of the largest calderas in the
world (25 km north-south and 18
km east-west).[1] The caldera
has a circumference of around
120 km (75 mi), although sources
vary on the exact distance.

6. UNZEN VOLCANO
Unzen is an active
volcanic group of
several overlapping
strato volcanoes, near
the city of Shimabara,
Nagasaki Prefecture, on
the island of Kyūshū,
Japan’s southernmost
main island

7. FUKUE-JIMA
Fukue-jima volcano is a
group of basaltic shield
volcanoes and cinder
cones on Fukue island off
the western coast of
Kyushu, Japan.
The volcanoes are
900,000 years old and
last erupted about 2-
3000 years ago

8. KIRISHIMA
Kirishima is a 1700 meter high active
volcano group. Kirishima one of
Japan's most active volcanoes. It is
actually a group of 18 young, small
strato volcanoes IN north of Kagoshima
Bay

9. Sumiyoshi-ike
Sumiyoshi-ike volcano
refers to 2 maars 2 km
apart located in the
coastal lowland north of
the Aira caldera:
Sumiyoshi-ike (500 m
diameter) and
Yonemaru (1.2 km).
The maars erupted when
sea level was rising about
8,000 years ago

10. Sakurajima
Sakura-jima, volcano in
southern Kyushu is one of the
most active volcanoes in the
world
Sakurajima's eruptive history has
been recorded since the 8th century.
It has frequently deposited ash on
Kagoshima, and due to its explosive
potential, considered a very
dangerous volcano and closely
monitored.
The largest historical eruptions of
Sakurajima took place during 1471-76
and in 1914.

11. Ibusuku
Ibusuki volcano is a group of calderas,
central cones and maars at the
southern tip of Kyushu Island, Japan.
Although the last eruption dates back
to the 9th century, it is an active
volcano.
It contains the 4.5-km-wide Ikeda-ko
caldera, which formed about 4600
years ago, and the andesitic Kaimon-dake
stratovolcano, the most
prominent feature of the volcano.
Kaimon-dake contains a lava dome at
the summit.
The Ibusuku volcano has been very
active during the past 10,000 years.
Since about 2650 years ago, all activity
has taken place from Kaimon-dake,
the last one in the 9th cent