Kuchinoerabujima

Kuchinoerabujima

Infobox Mountain
Name=Kuchinoerabujima
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Elevation=convert|657|m|ft|0
Location=Ryukyu Islands, Japan
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Prominence =
Coordinates = coord|30.44|N|130.219|E|format=dms|type:mountain
Topographic

Type=Stratovolcanoes
Age=
Last eruption=1980
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Kuchinoerabu-jima (口永良部島) is a volcano located in the Ryūkyū Islands, Japan. In the eruption on December 241933, a village northeast of Shindake was destroyed, 8 people died and 26 were injured. In the latest eruption in 1980, multiple explosion craters appeared along an 800m north-south fissure on the slope east of Shindake. The island is governed by Yakushima and Kagoshima.

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