Komagatake+Eric

__**Komagatake**__: Eric Reitsma **Type of** **Volcano:** Stratovolcano  **Geographic Location**: 42.07 N, 140.68 E **Type of plate boundary** : Convergent plate boundary.  **Name, distance, and population of nearest major city (cities)**: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Hakodate City that's 30km south of the volcano with population of 320,000 people **Date of most recent eruption** : <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Last eruption happened in March of 1996. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Date of most DESTRUCTIVE eruption**: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Most destructive eruption was in 1640 when the summit part collapsed and the avalanche entered the sea creating a tsunami that killed 700 people. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Predict when next eruption may occur** : <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Unknown prediction of next eruption of this volcano. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Other event associated with the last eruption (earthquakes, floods, lahars etc)** : <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Small earthquakes, ash falling, and a tsunami. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Major hazards to humans in the vicinity of this volcano** : <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Major hazards such as tsunamis, earthquakes, and explosive eruptions. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Summary**: You are the head of the USGS. What recommendations would you make to minimize the risk to the population? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">(One paragraph minimum) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">If I was head of the USGS, then I would recommend that there be road signs that would lead people to an evacuation site. For the evacuation site, I would have it a few hundred kilometers from the volcano and that it would be high ground so less of a chance for lava or floods would be unable to kill the people. Therefore minimizing the risk to the population, so there would not be a high death count from the volcano eruption. Another recommendation that would be crucial is that no would live near the volcano in chance that it would ever erupt. As well notifying people that are near the volcano of the danger their in when the volcano will erupt. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Due Date for your wiki: April 26** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Reflection:** **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Read the other wikipages. Select three volcanoes and tell me __why__ you chose them. What are the similarities (3) and difference(s) (at least 1) between your volcano and the three you chose? ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Due date for reflection: May 1**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Reference links**: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">1)http://www.volcanolive.com/komaga-take.html <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">2)http://google.com/images <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">3)http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/japan/