Σακουρατζίμα: Διαφορά μεταξύ των αναθεωρήσεων

Today's Kita-dake is Sakurajima's highest, rising to {{convert|1117|m|sigfig=4|abbr=on}} above [[sea level]]. The mountain is located in a part of Kagoshima Bay known as Kinkō-wan. The former island is part of the [[Municipality of Japan|city]] of [[Kagoshima, Kagoshima|Kagoshima]].<ref name="nussbaum447">Nussbaum, [http://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA447&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false "Kagoshima prefecture" at p. 447].</ref> The surface of this volcanic peninsula is about {{convert|77|km2|abbr=on}}.

 

Sakurajima is located in the [[Aira caldera]], formed in an enormous eruption 22,000&nbsp;years ago.<ref name="VOWO">{{cite web |url = http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/vw_hyperexchange/sakura-jima.html |title = The 1914 Sakurajima explosion at Volcanoworld |accessdate = 2007-08-03 }}</ref> Several hundred cubic kilometres of [[Volcanic ash|ash]] and [[pumice]] were ejected, causing the [[magma chamber]] underneath the erupting vents to collapse. The resulting caldera is over {{convert|20|km|abbr=on}} across. [[Tephra]] fell as far as {{convert|1000|km|abbr=on}} from the volcano. Sakurajima is a modern active vent of the same Aira caldera volcano.