or is a stratovolcano in the west of
Kumamoto city,
Kumamoto Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Kumamoto Prefecture has a population of 1,748,134 () and has a geographic area of . Kumamoto Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the north, Ōita Prefecture to ...
,
Japan
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. It is an extinct
stratovolcano
A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra. Unlike shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes are characterized by a steep profile with a summit crater and per ...
and
lava dome
In volcanology, a lava dome is a circular mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano. Dome-building eruptions are common, particularly in convergent plate boundary settings. Around 6% of eruptions on ...
. Mount Kinbō overlooks the city of Kumamoto and is used for sightseeing and for radio and TV broadcast antennas.
Geology
Older than nearby
Mount Aso
Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest.
Mount or Mounts may also refer to:
Places
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, it formed over the past 100 million years. Extensive volcanic activity took place 56 million years to 50 million years ago. The last eruption took place from 200,000 years to 150,000 years ago. In 1889 a
6.3 magnitude earthquake struck beneath the mountain. In 2016 the foreshock of the
2016 Kumamoto earthquakes
The were a series of earthquakes, including a magnitude 7.0 mainshock which struck at 01:25 JST on April 16, 2016 (16:25 UTC on April 15) beneath Kumamoto City of Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu Region, Japan, at a depth of ...
also struck beneath Mount Kinbō.
History
Master swordsman
Miyamoto Musashi wrote parts of his ''
Book of Five Rings
is a text on ''kenjutsu'' and the martial arts in general, written by the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi around 1645. Many translations have been made, and it enjoys an audience considerably broader than other martial artists and people ac ...
'' while staying on the mountain. Most of the mountain now lies within
Kinpōzan Prefectural Natural Park
is a Prefectural Natural Park in northwest Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Established in 1955, the park spans the municipalities
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government o ...
.
See also
*
List of volcanoes in Japan
Notes
External links
*
Kinbo (Kinpo) Zan- Geological Survey of Japan
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Mountains of Kumamoto Prefecture
Extinct volcanoes of Asia
Eocene volcanoes
Pleistocene volcanoes
Calderas of Kyushu