The 1990-95 eruption of Unzen volcano, in Kyushu, southern Japan, produced a lava dome at the summit. The rising sun colors the dome, seen here from the NE on 2 February 1995, near the end of the eruption. By this time the dome had grown to about 200 m above the pre-eruption surface. Periodic collapse of the growing lava dome had produced pyroclastic flows that devastated areas on the SE and NE flanks, resulting in the evacuation of thousands.

Photo by Tom Pierson, 1995 (U.S. Geological Survey).

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Galleries: Lava Domes

Keywords: lava dome | eruption

Unzendake