No latest activity reported for Bandai.

Below is a summary of eruption dates and Volcanic Explosivity Indices (VEI).

The following references are the sources used for data regarding this volcano. References are linked directly to our volcano data file. Discussion of another volcano or eruption (sometimes far from the one that is the subject of the manuscript) may produce a citation that is not at all apparent from the title. Additional discussion of data sources can be found under Volcano Data Criteria.

Japan Meteorological Agency, 1996. {National Catalogue of the Active Volcanoes in Japan (second edition)}. Tokyo: Japan Meteorological Agency, 502 p (in Japanese)

Kudo T, Hoshizumi H, 2006-. Catalog of eruptive events within the last 10,000 years in Japan, database of Japanese active volcanoes. Geol Surv Japan, AIST, http://riodb02.ibase.aist.go.jp/db099/eruption/index.html

Kuno H, 1962. Japan, Taiwan and Marianas. {Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the World and Solfatara Fields}, Rome: IAVCEI, 11: 1-332

Mimura K, Endo H, 1997. Repeated collapse and reconstruction of Bandai volcano as revealed in the large outcrop of debris deposits on the southwest foot. {Bull Volc Soc Japan (Kazan)}, 42: 3321-330 (in Japanese with English abs)

Murayama I, 1987. {Volcanoes of Japan (I)}. Tokyo: Daimedo, 315 p (2nd edition, in Japanese)

Nakamura Y, 1978. Geology and petrology of Bandai and Nekoma volcanoes. {Tokyo Univ Sci Rpt}, 14: 67-119

Nakano S, Yamamoto T, Iwaya T, Itoh J, Takada A, 2001-. {Quaternary Volcanoes of Japan}. Geol Surv Japan, AIST, http://www.aist.go.jp/RIODB/strata/VOL_JP/

Sekiya S, Kikuchi Y, 1889. The eruption of Bandai-san. {J College Sci Imperial Univ Japan}, 3: 91-172

Suzuki T, 1996. Discharge rates of fallout tephra and frequency of plinian eruptions during the last 400,000 years in the southern Northeast Japan arc. {Quat Internatl}, 34-36: 79-87

Yamamoto T, Nakamura Y, Glicken H, 1999. Pyroclastic density currents from the 1888 phreatic eruption of Bandai volcano, NE Japan. {J Volc Geotherm Res}, 90: 191-207

Yamamoto T, Suto S, 1996. Eruptive history of Bandai volcano, NE Japan, based on tephrastratigraphy. {Bull Geol Surv Japan}, 47: 335-359 (in Japanese with English abs)

Yamawaki T, Tanaka S, Ueki S, Hamaguchi H, Nakamichi H, Nishimura T, Oikawa J, Tsutsui T, Nishi K, Shimizu H, Yamaguchi S, Miyamachi H, Yamasato H, Hayashi Y, 2004. Three-dimensional P-wave velocity structure of Bandai volcano in northeastern Japan inferred from active seismic survey. {J Volc Geotherm Res}, 138: 267-282

One of Japan's most noted volcanoes, Bandai-san rises above the north shore of Lake Inawashiro. The Bandai complex is formed of several overlapping andesitic stratovolcanoes, the largest of which is O-Bandai. Ko-Bandai volcano, which collapsed in 1888, was formed about 50,000 years ago. O-Bandai volcano was constructed within a horseshoe-shaped caldera that formed about 40,000 years when an older volcano collapsed, forming the Okinajima debris avalanche, which traveled to the SW and was accompanied by a plinian explosive eruption. The last magmatic eruption at Bandai took place more than 25,000 years ago, but four major phreatic eruptions have occurred during the past 5000 years, two of them in historical time, in 806 and 1888. Seen from the south, Bandai presents a conical profile, but much of the north side of the volcano is missing as a result of the collapse of Ko-Bandai volcano during the 1888 eruption, in which a debris avalanche buried several villages and formed several large lakes.