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1914 Sakurajima eruption disaster...
1914 Sakurajima eruption disaster...
Item # 679656
January 13, 1914
EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Jan. 13, 1914
* Sakurajima stratovolcano eruption disaster
* Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan
The front page has four column headline: "THOUSANDS BELIEVED KILLED BY ERUPTION OF VOLCANO" with subheads. (see) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues that are not totally fragile from this era in paper.
Complete with 16 pages, small library stamps within the masthead, a little irregular along the spine, generally very nice.
wikipedia notes: The 1914 eruption began on January 11. It was the most powerful in twentieth-century Japan. The volcano had been dormant for over a century until 1914. Almost all residents had left the island in the previous days; several large earthquakes had warned them that an eruption was imminent. Initially, the eruption was very explosive, generating eruption columns and pyroclastic flows, but after a very large earthquake on January 13, 1914, which killed 58 people, it became effusive, generating a large lava flow. Lava flows filled the narrow strait between the island and the mainland, turning it into a peninsula. Lava flows are rare in Japan—because the silica content of the magmas is high, explosive eruptions are far more common but the lava flows at Sakurajima continued for months.
Category: The 20th Century
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