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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-3329-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-3329-2022
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14 Oct 2022
Research article |  | 14 Oct 2022

Assessing minimum pyroclastic density current mass to impact critical infrastructures: example from Aso caldera (Japan)

Andrea Bevilacqua, Alvaro Aravena, Willy Aspinall, Antonio Costa, Sue Mahony, Augusto Neri, Stephen Sparks, and Brittain Hill

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We evaluate through first-order kinetic energy models, the minimum volume and mass of a pyroclastic density current generated at the Aso caldera that might affect any of five distal infrastructure sites. These target sites are all located 115–145 km from the caldera, but in well-separated directions. Our constraints of volume and mass are then compared with the scale of Aso-4, the largest caldera-forming eruption of Aso.
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