Mount Ontake, Japan
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- Created on: 22-12-17 12:19
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- Mount Ontake
- Eruption
- 2nd highest in Japan
- Series of phreatic eruptions
- Erupted on 27th September 2014
- Impacts
- Ash blocked the sun
- 57 died, 40 injured and 6 missing
- Ash up to half a metre deep
- Ash and water stopped rescue helicopters from helping
- Typhoon Phanfone stopped search activities
- Responses
- Military immediately did a search and rescue
- 80 climbers claimed the volcano to help 40 people down the volcano
- Airspace around the volcano was closed
- Tourists can't go to the volcano now
- Monitoring of the volcano including shelters and hazard mapping
- Changed perception
- Eruption
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