Talia

**Volcano Assignment due Friday, June 1st:**
====Find a real life example of a type of volcano.==== ====Find your name on the right and post a picture with at least 5 pieces of information about your volcano.====

Include the type of volcano.
====Include the type of plate boundary the volcano exists on (divergent, convergent, hot spot...)==== Include which tectonic plates are involved with this volcano.

Sakurajima

Sakurajima is a composite Volcano. It rests on a destructive plate boundary between the Filipino Plate (which is being subducted) and the Eurasian plate. Sakurajima is an active volcano that is located a few hundred meters from the city of Kagoshima, Japan. Sakurajima was once an island. It erupted with so much lava in January 1914 that the island has become a peninsula (its now connected to Kyushu). It was the largest eruption in Japan in the 20th century.Sakurajima began erupting again in 1955 and has been erupting ever since. Thousands of small explosive eruptions occur every year.