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Report on Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba (Japan) — May 1978


Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba

Scientific Event Alert Network Bulletin, vol. 3, no. 5 (May 1978)
Managing Editor: David Squires.

Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba (Japan) Water discoloration observed October-December 1977 and January 1978

Please cite this report as:

Global Volcanism Program, 1978. Report on Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba (Japan) (Squires, D., ed.). Scientific Event Alert Network Bulletin, 3:5. Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.SEAN197805-284130



Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba

Japan

24.285°N, 141.481°E; summit elev. -29 m

All times are local (unless otherwise noted)


Discoloration was observed on 14 October 1977, 15 and 25 November 1977, 8 and 23 December 1977, and 10, 24, and 25 January 1978.

Geological Summary. Fukutoku-Oka-no-ba is a submarine volcano located 5 km NE of the island of Minami-Ioto. Water discoloration is frequently observed, and several ephemeral islands have formed in the 20th century. The first of these formed Shin-Ioto ("New Sulfur Island") in 1904, and the most recent island was formed in 1986. The volcano is part of an elongated edifice with two major topographic highs trending NNW-SSE, and is a trachyandesitic volcano geochemically similar to Ioto.

Information Contacts: JMA, Tokyo.