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    Sakurajima is one of the most active volcanoes in the world and can erupt more than a thousand times a year, spewing ash kilometers above the volcano. Sakurajima is a stratovolcano, one of the 16 Decade Volcanoes, and a former island in Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan. In 1914 an eruption caused the island to be connected with the Osumi Peninsula. It's summit is split into three peaks, Kita-dake,     A volcano is just a vent for magma and gases to escape through. Sakurajima rests on the southern island of Japan, known as Kyushu. Japan rests along the Euras*an Plate, a continental plate, coming in contact with the Philippine plate, an oceanic plate. These plates rest in a subduction zone, meaning it's a convergent boundary. The two plates are colliding with eachother. When that happens, one plate can slide under the other. The denser oceanic crust subducts underneath the less dense continental crust. This causes the mantle underneath to melt. The magma pushes upward, melting more rock. The hot magma collects under earth's crust. If the pressure is high enough or a    Construction of the volcano is thought to have begun about 13,000 years ago at the southern perimeter of the Aira Caldera which formed as a result of a mas*ive eruption approximately 22,000 years ago. The Sakurajima volcano is a post-caldera cone of the Aira caldera, located at the northern part of Kagoshima Bay. The first volcanic birth in the Aira Caldera was Kita-dake (North peak). It had erupted frequently until approximately 5,000 years ago when it became dormant. 500 years after that, Minami-dake (South peak) was created in an overlapping fashion next to Kita-dake. Minami-dake has been and continues to be vigorously active to this day.     Before 1955, the volcano exploded every few hundred years, blasting in 1471, in 1779 and in 1914, for example. After 1955, Sakurajima started spitting out small amounts of lava and ash almost daily, with occasional pauses or larger blasts. Researchers suspect