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Understanding phreatic eruptions - recent observations of Kusatsu-Shirane volcano and equivalents -

Earth, Planets and Space welcomes submissions to the special issue on 'Understanding phreatic eruptions - recent observations of Kusatsu-Shirane volcano and equivalents -'.

It has been two years since the unexpected eruption of Kusatsu-Shirane volcano (Moto-Shirane) on January 23, 2018. The eruption took place after the 1,500 years of dormancy. It shed light on the difficulty on the prediction of phreatic eruptions but also motivated studies on the long-term and more regional scale studies of the dormant volcanoes. This special issue will include the past and on-going researches on the Kusatsu-Shirane volcano with varieties of disciplines such as seismology, geodesy, geomagnetism, geochemistry, petrology, and risk assessment of volcanoes. We also  welcome papers on the similar volcanoes with phreatic eruptions.
 

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Lead Guest Editor
Yasuo Ogawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Guest Editors
Takeshi Ohba , Tokai University, Japan 
Tobias Fischer , University of New Mexico, USA
Mare Yamamoto, Tohoku University, Japan
Art Jolly, GNS Science, New Zealand

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  2. Two-thirds of the 111 active volcanoes in Japan are covered with snow for several months during winter and demonstrate high hazard and risk potentials associated with snow-related lahars during and after erupt...

    Authors: Kyoko S. Kataoka, Kae Tsunematsu, Takane Matsumoto, Atsushi Urabe and Katsuhisa Kawashima
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:220
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  3. The Whakaari/White Island volcano, located ~ 50 km off the east coast of the North Island in New Zealand, has experienced sequences of quiescence, unrest, magmatic and phreatic eruptions over the last decades....

    Authors: Corentin Caudron, Társilo Girona, Arthur Jolly, Bruce Christenson, Martha Kane Savage, Roberto Carniel, Thomas Lecocq, Ben Kennedy, Ivan Lokmer, Alexander Yates, Ian Hamling, Iseul Park, Geoff Kilgour and Agnès Mazot
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:195
    Content type: Frontier Letter Published on:

  5. We estimate the mass and energy budgets for the 2018 phreatic eruption of Mt. Motoshirane on Kusatsu–Shirane volcano, Japan, based on data obtained from a network of eight tiltmeters and weather radar echoes. ...

    Authors: Akihiko Terada, Wataru Kanda, Yasuo Ogawa, Taishi Yamada, Mare Yamamoto, Takahiro Ohkura, Hiroshi Aoyama, Tomoki Tsutsui and Shin’ya Onizawa
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:157
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:184

  6. An electrical resistivity model beneath Azumayama Volcano, NE Japan, is explored using magnetotelluric method to probe the magma/hydrothermal fluid distribution. Azumayama is one of the most concerning active ...

    Authors: Masahiro Ichiki, Toshiki Kaida, Takashi Nakayama, Satoshi Miura, Mare Yamamoto, Yuichi Morita and Makoto Uyeshima
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:150
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  7. This study presents the first hydrogeochemical model of the hydrothermal systems of Turrialba and Irazú volcanoes in central Costa Rica, manifested as thermal springs, summit crater lakes, and fumarolic degass...

    Authors: D. Rouwet, R. Mora-Amador, C. Ramírez, G. González, E. Baldoni, G. Pecoraino, S. Inguaggiato, B. Capaccioni, F. Lucchi and C. A. Tranne
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:142
    Content type: Full paper Published on:

  8. On January 23, 2018, a small phreatic eruption (VEI = 1) occurred at the Motoshirane Pyroclastic Cone Group in the southern part of Kusatsu-Shirane Volcano in central Japan. The eruption ejected ash, lapillus,...

    Authors: Nobuko Kametani, Yasuo Ishizaki, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Fukashi Maeno, Akihiko Terada, Ryuta Furukawa, Ryo Honda, Yoshihiro Ishizuka, Jiro Komori, Masashi Nagai and Shinji Takarada
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:141
    Content type: Express Letter Published on:

  9. Kusatsu-Shirane volcano is one of the active volcanoes in Japan. Phreatic explosions occurred in Mt. Shirane in 1983 and most recently, in 2018, in Mt. Motoshirane. Information on the subsurface structure is c...

    Authors: Takao Koyama, Wataru Kanda, Mitsuru Utsugi, Takayuki Kaneko, Takao Ohminato, Atsushi Watanabe, Hiroshi Tsuji, Taro Nishimoto, Alexey Kuvshinov and Yoshiaki Honda
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:139
    Content type: Express Letter Published on:

  10. A phreatic eruption suddenly occurred at Motoshirane (Kusatsu-Shirane volcano, Japan) at 10:02 JST on January 23, 2018. A member of the Japan Self-Defense Force was killed by volcanic blocks during training in...

    Authors: Eiichi Sato
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:117
    Content type: Express Letter Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:128

  11. Direct sampling and analysis of fumarolic gas was conducted at Ebinokogen Ioyama volcano, Japan, between December 2015 and July 2020. Notable changes in the chemical composition of gases related to volcanic ac...

    Authors: Takeshi Ohba, Muga Yaguchi, Urumu Tsunogai, Masanori Ito and Ryo Shingubara
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:81
    Content type: Full paper Published on:

  12. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, volcanic unrest has occurred every 2–5 years at Hakone volcano. After the 2015 eruption, unrest activity changed significantly in terms of seismicity and geoche...

    Authors: Kazutaka Mannen, Yuki Abe, Yasushi Daita, Ryosuke Doke, Masatake Harada, George Kikugawa, Naoki Honma, Yuji Miyashita and Yohei Yukutake
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:80
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  13. Kusatsu-Shirane volcano hosts numerous thermal springs, fumaroles, and the crater lake of Yugama. Hence, it has been a particular study field for hydrothermal systems and phreatic eruptions. On 23 January 2018...

    Authors: Taishi Yamada, Aika K. Kurokawa, Akihiko Terada, Wataru Kanda, Hideki Ueda, Hiroshi Aoyama, Takahiro Ohkura, Yasuo Ogawa and Toshikazu Tanada
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:14
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:184

  14. The Iwo-yama volcano of the Kirishima Volcanic Complex in Japan had a small phreatic eruption in April 2018, which newly formed multiple vents. The activity was recorded by two infrasound sensors and two monit...

    Authors: Dan Muramatsu, Takeshi Matsushima and Mie Ichihara
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:8
    Content type: Express Letter Published on:

  15. Infrasonic stations are sparse at many volcanoes, especially those on remote islands and those with less frequent eruptions. When only a single infrasound station is available, the seismic–infrasonic cross-cor...

    Authors: Aika K. Kurokawa and Mie Ichihara
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2020 72:171
    Content type: Full paper Published on:

  16. We aimed to perform three-dimensional imaging of the underlying geothermal system to a depth of 2 km using magnetotellurics (MT) at around the Yugama crater, the Kusatsu–Shirane Volcano, Japan, which is known ...

    Authors: Kuo Hsuan Tseng, Yasuo Ogawa, Nurhasan, Sabri Bülent Tank, Naoto Ujihara, Yoshimori Honkura, Akihiko Terada, Yoshiya Usui and Wataru Kanda
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2020 72:161
    Content type: Express Letter Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:81

  17. Improving the ability to detect and characterize long-duration volcanic tremor is crucial to understand the long-term dynamics and unrest of volcanic systems. We have applied data reduction methods (permutatio...

    Authors: Ivan Melchor, Javier Almendros, Roberto Carniel, Kostas I. Konstantinou, Marcia Hantusch and Alberto Caselli
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2020 72:134
    Content type: Express Letter Published on:

  18. Coeruptive deformation helps to interpret physical processes associated with volcanic eruptions. Because phreatic eruptions cause small, localized coeruptive deformation, we sometimes fail to identify plausibl...

    Authors: Yuji Himematsu, Taku Ozawa and Yosuke Aoki
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2020 72:116
    Content type: Express Letter Published on:

  19. We have observed very long period earthquakes (VLPs) over the period 2007 to the end of 2019 at Whakaari/White Island volcano, New Zealand. The earthquakes exhibit similitude between waveforms which suggests r...

    Authors: Iseul Park, Arthur Jolly, Ivan Lokmer and Ben Kennedy
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2020 72:92
    Content type: Full paper Published on:

  20. Kusatsu–Shirane Volcano is an active Quaternary andesitic-to-dacitic volcano located in the Central Japan Arc. We conducted a detailed petrological investigation of orthopyroxene (opx)–magnetite (mt) symplecti...

    Authors: Kenta Ueki, Mutsuko Inui, Kenta Matsunaga, Naoya Okamoto and Kazuki Oshio
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2020 72:68
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