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Mt.Ontake

            Mount Ontake (御嶽山 Ontake-san), also referred to as Mount Kiso Ontake (木曽御嶽山 Kiso Ontake-san), is the second highest volcano in Japan (after Mount Fuji) at 3,067 m (10,062 ft)

Mt. Ontake is located around 100 km northeast of Nagoya, and around 200 km west of Tokyo, at the borders of Kiso and Ōtaki, Nagano Prefecture, and Gero, Gifu Prefecture.
The volcano has five crater lakes, with Ni no Ike (二ノ池) at 2,905 m (9,531 ft) being the highest mountain lake in Japan.
Ontake is a major sacred mountain, and following older shamanistic practices, actors and artists have gone to the mountain to put themselves into trances in order to get divine inspiration for their creative activities.

Ontake was thought to be inactive until October 1979, when it underwent a series of explosive phreatic eruptions (VEI2), ejecting 200,000 tons of ash in total.
There were minor non-explosive (VEI0) phreatic eruptions in 1991 and 2007.
On Saturday, September 27, 2014, at around 11:53 a.m. Japan Standard Time (UTC +9), the volcano erupted with a VEI of 3 or 4. There were no significant earthquakes that might have warned authorities in the lead up to the phreatic eruption—caused by ground water flashing to steam in a hydrothermal explosion. The Mount Ontake volcano eruption was an extremely rare phenomenon which made it impossible to take precautionary measures. At least 40 people were injured, and another 32 were believed to be missing. The Japan Self-Defense Forces began carrying out helicopter searches for missing people after the eruption. Ontake's last major eruption was in 1979 and there has been no fatalities from Japanese volcanoes since 1991.
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Taken in: 日本 / 長野県 / 茅野市 (show map)

Taken on: December 28, 2014

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Camera:	Panasonic DMC-GM1
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/640)
Focal Length:	100mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	+0.597 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Landscape
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
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