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Access count: (since September 1, 1998)

Part 1: Introduction
Why was this Internet Museum opened?
Part 2: History of eruptions of Unzen-Fugendake
Location of Unzen Volcano, History of its growth,
Shimabara Catastrophe
Part 3: All of the 1990 - 1995 eruption
Precursors, Lava extrusion, Formation and collapse of lava dome,
Large-scale pyroclastic flows
Part 4: Observation of volcanic and seismic activities
Seismograph, Conversion of seismic-acoustic oscillations,
Seismic penetrator, GPS observation, Thermal imagery, etc.
Part 5: How is a volcano formed?
Structure of the earth, Formation of magma,
How is a volcano formed? Underground structure of Kyushu Island

Composition and data given by Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
and Shimabara Earthquake and Volcano Observatory
WWW pages composed by Kenjiro Takada (Dept. of Phys., Kyushu Univ.)
Cooperated by Takeru Yanagi (Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sci., Kyushu Univ.)
Sadaomi Suzuki (Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sci., Kyushu Univ.)
Hiroshi Shimizu (Shimabara Earthquake and Volcano Observatory, Kyushu University)

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