Mount Hiuchi | |
Other Name: | Hiuchigatake |
Elevation M: | 2356 |
Location: | Honshu, Japan |
Map: | Japan#Japan Fukushima Prefecture |
Coordinates: | 36.9519°N 139.2886°W |
Type: | Stratovolcano |
Age: | Quaternary |
Last Eruption: | July 1544 |
Mount Hiuchi, also Hiuchigatake (Japanese: 燧ヶ岳) is a 2,356 m tall stratovolcano in Oze National Park, and located in Hinoemata Village, Minami-Aizu gun, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. This is the highest mountain in Tōhoku region.[1] The volcano rises in the north of . It is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.
Hiuchi initially formed around 350,000 years ago. Around 160,000–170,000 years ago, Hiuchi erupted, creating a large pyroclastic flow deposit. At the summit of the volcano lie two lava domes, Akanagure (赤ナグレ) and Mi-ike (御池岳). Akanagure, the southern dome, produced a series of viscous lava flows that flowed down the southern and western parts of the volcano about 3500 years ago. Mi-ike is responsible for the only recorded activity.
The only recorded activity was on July 28, 1544. A moderate phreatic eruption at the Mi-ike Lava Dome produced lahars and an associated tephra layer.