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The 1792 Unzen landslide and tsunami resulted from the volcanic activities of Mount Unzen (in the Shimabara Peninsula of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan) on 21 May. This caused the collapse of the southern flank of the Mayuyama dome in front of Mount Unzen, resulting in a tremendous tsunami, killing 15,000 people altogether. [2]
Mount Unzen (雲仙岳, Unzen-dake) is an active volcanic group of several overlapping stratovolcanoes, near the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki on the island of Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island. In 1792, the collapse of one of its several lava domes triggered a megatsunami that killed 14,524 people in Japan's worst volcanic-related disaster .
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft is a 2022 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog. The film is a tribute to the French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who were killed on 3 June 1991, by a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen, in Japan.
2022: Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, Tonga ... 1792: Mount Unzen, Japan. Mount Unzen is a group of overlapping active volcanoes. In 1792, an eruption caused enormous landslides that engulfed the city ...
Fire of Love is a 2022 independent [4] documentary film about the lives and careers of volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft. [5] Directed, written, and produced by Sara Dosa, the film had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2022, where it won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award.
On 3 June 1991 at 4pm local time, Mount Unzen erupted, forming pyroclastic flows that rushed down its slopes, killing 41 people including the Kraffts, as well as their fellow volcanologist Harry Glicken, who had accompanied them to observe the eruption. On 5 June 1991, the bodies of the Kraffts and Glicken were recovered.
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022) – a documentary film about the French volcanologists, who are discussed in a segment of Into the Inferno. Katia and Maurice Krafft died on 3 June 1991 in a pyroclastic flow produced by the eruption of Mount Unzen in Japan.
The unnamed undersea volcano, located about 1 kilometer (half a mile) off the southern coast of Iwo Jima, which Japan calls Ioto, started its latest series of eruptions on Oct. 21.