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In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
  Unzen Volcano, Japan
This is a space radar image of the area around the Unzen volcano, on the west coast of Kyushu Island in southwestern Japan.
Unzen, which appears in this image as a large triangular peak with a white flank near the center of the peninsula, has been continuously active since a series of powerful eruptions began in 1991.
Unzen is one of 15 "Decade" volcanoes identified by the scientific community as posing significant potential threats to large local populations.
www.solarviews.com /cap/volc/unzen.htm   (451 words)

  
 Unzen Tourist Association Homepage
The hot spring of Unzen is characterized by its sulfurous hot water with high acidity (pH: 2.0 - 2.2), which is uniquely high comparing to hot springs in Europe where the hot spring treatment is actively performed.
Unzen's hot spring is known by its component of hot water such as "acid hydrogen sulfide spring", "aluminiferous spring including hydrogen sulfide" or "ferrous sulfate spring" but it is generally called "sulfurous hot spring".
It is also noted that the Unzen hot spring is effective to facial treatment as well as effective against chronic rheumatism, diabetes, neuralgic pain, muscle pain, joint pain, and fatigue with health-promoting benefits.
www.unzen.org /e_ver/spa.html   (537 words)

  
  Mount Unzen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mount Unzen (jp: 雲仙岳 Unzendake) is an active volcano near the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, on the Japanese island of Kyushu.
The volcano was designated a Decade Volcano in 1991 as part of the United Nations' International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, due to its history of violent activity and location in a densely populated area.
In 1999, an ambitious project began at Mt. Unzen to drill deep inside the volcano and sample magma in the 1990–1995 eruption conduit.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Unzen   (1117 words)

  
 No. 03-3512
Unzen argues that Richard, as a matter of law, was not negligent and that the circuit court therefore erred by denying her motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or, alternatively, a new trial.
Unzen challenges the jury's apportionment of negligence, contending that Richard was not negligent.
Unzen argues that Overhead Door's original negligence in dropping the ladder on the bridge caused all subsequent events and was the sole proximate cause of Richard's death.
www.wisbar.org /res/capp/2004/03-3512.htm   (1235 words)

  
 CVO Website - Unzen Volcano, Japan
Fugen-dake and Mayu-yama volcanoes in the east-central portion of the andesitic-to-dacitic Unzen volcanic complex have been active during the Holocene.
Unzen is one of more than 75 active volcanoes in Japan; its eruption in 1792 killed more than 15,000 people -- the worst volcanic disaster in the country's history.
Combined with destabilization of old debris on Unzen's upper slopes owing to the death of vegetation, these deposits are a ready source of loose debris for generating lahars during rainstorms.
vulcan.wr.usgs.gov /Volcanoes/Japan/description_unzen.html   (1082 words)

  
 The Pine Journal - Cloquet, Minnesota
Unzen, who worked for the Minnesota Department of Transportation, fell 130 feet into Superior Bay after being struck by a vehicle as he stopped to remove a ladder that had fallen into the bridge’s roadway.
As Unzen attempted to pull the ladder from the traffic lanes, a Chevy Blazer driven by Carswell approached the scene, attempted to stop and locked his brakes while coming to a stop in the left lane, basically blocking traffic.
Due to the alleged actions of the defendants, Unzen “experienced pain and suffering of body and mind prior to his death,” and Gloria Unzen “sustained pecuniary injury, loss of society and companionship, medical expense in the amount of approximately $3,000,” with other expenses totaling around $12,000.
www.cloquetmn.com /journal/index.php?sect_rank=1&story_id=127875   (910 words)

  
 NASA's Observatorium -- Observation of the Week   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Unzen Volcano as seen from the east, showing the city of Shimabara in the foreground.
Unzen Volcano is situated near the center of a peninsula on the west coast of Kyushu Island, Japan (see above space-radar image).
Unzen has been continuously active since a series of powerful eruptions began in 1991; and at its summit, a dome of thick lava has been growing since then.
observe.arc.nasa.gov /nasa/ootw/1999/ootw_990512/ob990512_more7.html   (160 words)

  
 Japan's Unzen Volcano is Volcanic Mystery, Alaska Science Forum
Unzen Volcano in southwest Japan, which erupted from 1991 to 1995, is a good example.
During its recent four-year eruption, Unzen oozed lava at the rate of 2 cubic meters-about the volume of an office desk-every second of every day.
Thousands of avalanches tumbled down the slopes of Unzen Volcano during its four-year eruption, killing 44 people and burying 10 square kilometers of the downslope city of Shimabara.
www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF15/1527.html   (637 words)

  
 Conduits and Interiors of Active Volcanoes: Unzen Scientific Drilling Project I - Volcanology, Geochemistry, Petrology ...
Unzen volcano is an active volcano in SW Japan, and its 1990-95 eruption caused the frequent dome-collapse-type pyroclastic flows and associated debris flows.
Unzen volcano is an active volcano composed of lava domes, thick lava flows and pyroclastic deposits of hornblende andesite to dacite.
During the phase I of the Unzen Scientific Drilling Project (USDP), two drillings were conducted at the northeastern (USDP-1: 752 m depth) and eastern (USDP-2: 1463 m depth) flanks of the volcano, respectively, to fully recover accumulated deposits of the volcano hidden beneath the younger eruptives.
www.agu.org /meetings/fm04/fm04-sessions/fm04_V24B.html   (3423 words)

  
 UNZEN, Unzen Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
The name means "fairyland among the clouds", perhaps inspired by the pure, mountain air and colourful flourishes of vegetation - azaleas in spring and autumn leaves - against which the onsen and their alter egos, the spitting, scalding jigoku ("hells"), compete for attention.
Unzen town consists largely of resort hotels and souvenir shops strung out along the main road, but fortunately there's plenty of space around and a variety of walking trails lead off into the surrounding national park.
Unzen's commercial centre lies in the north, concentrated round the bus stations, while its...
www.infohub.com /Destinations/Asia/Japan/Unzen/71899.htm   (284 words)

  
 Geotimes — March 2004 — Looking Into a Volcano: Drilling Unzen
Because modern eruption forecasts rely on interpretation of geophysical signals emanating from volcanic conduits — in particular, microseismicity, surface deformation, and gas and thermal emissions — understanding conduits will inevitably lead to improved interpretation of premonitory signals and hence to reduction in losses of life and property during volcanic crises.
A lava eruption at its summit in 1792 was followed by catastrophic collapse into the sea of Mayuyama, a subsidiary dome, which took part of the town with it and caused a tsunami that killed some 15,000 people.
Unzen’s earliest history was explosive, but, for much of its life, its petrology and behavior have been similar to that of the modern Unzen.
www.geotimes.org /mar04/feature_Unzen.html   (2254 words)

  
 Unzen Japan || The local Bakweri people believe the mountain erupts when their gods and ancestors who inhabit it are ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Northeastern view of Unzen Volcano in the eruptive activity During the...
Location: 32.75 N, 130.30 E. Elevation: 4,457, feet (1,359 m) Unzen is a large complex volcano made of several adjacent and overlapping lava domes.
Unzen, which is located in Kyushu Isl., Japan, has been erupting since 1990, however, the lava ejecting...
www.supercomputerman.com /Unzen/Unzen-Japan.html   (842 words)

  
 The Awake of  Killer Mount Unzen
After a two hundred year slumber Mount Unzen of Japan awoke.
The country's worst volcanic disaster was in Japan in 1792.
Unzen is only one of 75 active volcanoes in Japan.
library.thinkquest.org /TQ0312395/unzen.htm   (65 words)

  
 Unzen   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Unzen is also discussed in Chapter 6 as an example of a witnessed large debris avalance in a major eruption in 1792; 15,190 were killed in related tsunamis.
Effusion of dacite lava had continued for about 4 years, resulting in the formation of a lava dome at the summit and frequent generation of Merapi-type pyroclastic flows.
Unzen Volcano situated in the Shimabara Peninsula, Kyushu, Southwest Japan, initiated its activity about 500 Ka.
www.geology.wisc.edu /~g111/Volcanoes/Unzen/unzen.htm   (906 words)

  
 Erickson's Class   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In April of 1999 scientific research took place by drilling into the side of Unzen to understand the eruption mechanism and magmatic activity.
This was done to prevent future volcanic disaster from Unzen.
The summit of the Unzen volcano is called Mt. Fugen.
www.csun.edu /~jte35633/Volcanoes/Unzen.htm   (108 words)

  
 Unzen, Japan
Unzen is a large complex volcano made of several adjacent and overlapping lava domes.
The 1990 eruption was preceded by a swam of earthquakes that began in November 1989.
Unzen is out of the photo to the right.
volcano.und.nodak.edu /vwdocs/volc_images/img_unzen2.html   (583 words)

  
 Shimabara - Japan
Although earthquakes are the destructive phenomenon of the crust, the observation is to the foundations of the earthquake prediction and volcanic eruption prediction research.
After that, it inherits in the 5th earthquake prediction plan (1984-1988), and was expanded on the total observation network of 11 points for the Amakusa graben and the Shimabara-Kumamoto graben, which are earthquakes frequent occurrence zones.
One of the axes presumed to have arranged like the group of a wild goose in the Beppu-Shimabara graben is the Unzen graben that is crossing the central part of the Shimabara peninsula.
www.wovo.org /0802_10.htm   (1484 words)

  
 The State News - www.statenews.com
John Eichelberger, one of the principal investigators for the project and a colleague of Vogel, said he first became interested in drilling into Unzen after its period of restlessness in the early 1990s.
Unzen was chosen for this particular project because of the dual nature of its eruptions.
One reason why Patino and Vogel are participating in the Unzen project is because they have access to a special piece of equipment called a mass spectrometer.
www.statenews.com /article.phtml?pk=21827   (885 words)

  
 Richard Unzen: ZoomInfo Business People Information
Richard Unzen's summary was automatically generated using 7 references found on the Internet.
On that day, Unzen noticed a ladder had fallen off a truck into the roadway and was blocking both southbound lanes on the bridge.
Richard M. Unzen, 61, Richard M. Unzen, age 61, of Esko, died Monday, April 22, 2002 in Duluth while removing a ladder from the high bridge, trying to prevent accidents for other motorists.
www.zoominfo.com /people/unzen_richard_183647308.aspx   (535 words)

  
 UNZEN HOME PAGE
Unzen fulfilled one of the criteria for selection as a Decade Volcano.
The special issue on "Unzen eruption: Magma Ascent and Dome Growth" was published from Elsevier (Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, vol.
Scientific research project at Unzen with drilling into the volcanic body started in April 1999 to understand eruption mechanism and magmatic activity at Unzen and to mitigate volcanic disaster from future eruption, following the 1997 International workshop on Decade Volcano and Scientific Drilling at Shimabara.
hakone.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp /unzen/index.html   (314 words)

  
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Mt. Unzen is most well-known among scientists for its most abundant and destructive feature: the pyroclastic flow.
The eruptions that occurred between 1991 and 1996 at Mt. Unzen exemplify this type of dome collapse - pyroclastic flow pattern.
The magma supply to the Unzen structure is andesitic to dacitic in composition; essentially, the silica content of the magma is relatively high, yielding a lava with high viscosity and thick, pasty physical characteristics [25].
people.colgate.edu /elebon/pyroclastic.asp   (599 words)

  
 Unzen Tourist Association Homepage
Please enjoy "Unzen National Park", known for its exquisite natural beauty that is reflected in the seasons.
For your complete enjoyment of Unzen hot springs, we provide advice on how to bathe at hot springs, as well as information about their effects.
We, the association members, are waiting to welcome you to traditional Unzen.
www.unzen.org /e_ver/index.html   (127 words)

  
 Japanese Guest Houses - Unzen Fukudaya
Many of Unzen Fukudaya’s 34 Japanese-style rooms have their own private bath and toilet.
Check-in time at Unzen Fukudaya is after 3:00pm and check-out time is before 10:00am.
It is a 60 minute bus ride from JR Isahaya train station to Unzen Fukudaya.
www.japaneseguesthouses.com /db/nagasaki/fukudaya.htm   (387 words)

  
 Photo Sets of Unzen Volcano 1991-93 Eruption
Growing lava dome and Akamatsu Valley filled with pyroclastic flow
Eastern view of active Mt. Fugen, Unzen Volcano, with an apron of
Geologic Map of Unzen Volcano (simplified from Tanaka and Nakada: 1988)
wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp /kazan/store/unzenp.html   (138 words)

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