Report on Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba (Japan) — July 1989
Scientific Event Alert Network Bulletin, vol. 14, no. 7 (July 1989)
Managing Editor: Lindsay McClelland.
Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba (Japan) Thermal activity discolors sea water
Please cite this report as:
Global Volcanism Program, 1989. Report on Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba (Japan) (McClelland, L., ed.). Scientific Event Alert Network Bulletin, 14:7. Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.SEAN198907-284130
Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba
Japan
24.285°N, 141.481°E; summit elev. -29 m
All times are local (unless otherwise noted)
Thermal activity has continued since the January 1986 eruption (11:1-3). A pale green belt of discolored sea water and white bubbles was observed during a JMSA overflight on 9 May 1989. Another monitoring flight, on 14 June, revealed a 50 x 400 m zone near the vent that was discolored cobalt blue.
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; D. Shackelford, Fullerton, CA.
