NAGOYA, Nov 02 (News On Japan) –
Ninoike, a 3,067 meter lake as soon as shining in cobalt blue close to the summit of Mount Ontake, has fully dried up, leaving solely mud instead.
Takashiro Kunitomo from the Ontake Volcano Analysis Institute stated, “Not a lot is understood about Ninoike, however one concept is that it was created by a phreatic eruption. It’s believed to have fashioned between 30,000 and 10,000 years in the past.”
The lake fashioned in a volcanic crater crammed with water. However why has it disappeared?
Kunitomo defined, “It was buried by volcanic ash from the 2014 eruption.”
In 2014, Mount Ontake skilled Japan’s worst post-war volcanic catastrophe, with 58 folks killed and 5 reported lacking.
Over the previous ten years, volcanic ash from that eruption has continued to stream in, erasing a lake that’s thought to have existed for over 10,000 years.
Might the lake ever return to its former state?
“I believe it will be troublesome,” Kunitomo stated. “The quickest means can be one other phreatic eruption that might create a gap in that spot, however that will additionally carry harm, which is one thing we don’t want for.”
Supply: ANN
