No latest activity reported for Rausu.

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.

IAVCEI, 1973-80. Post-Miocene Volcanoes of the World. {IAVCEI Data Sheets, Rome: Internatl Assoc Volc Chemistry Earth's Interior}.

Japan Association Quaternary Research, 1987. {Quaternary Maps of Japan: Landforms, Geology, and Tectonics}. Tokyo: Univ Tokyo Press

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

Miyaji N, Nakagawa M, Yoshida M, 2000. Eruptive history of Rausudake volcano during the last 2200 years. {Bull Volc Soc Japan (Kazan)}, 45: 75-85 (in Japanese with English abs)

Miyaji N, Nakagawa M, Yoshida M, 1995. Tephrochronology of Rausu volcano during past 2,000 years. {Joint Mtg Earth Sci, 1995, Abs}, (in Japanese)

Nakamura Y, Marumo M, Hirakawa K, Sawagaki T, 2008. Holocene tephrostratigraphy in the Shiretoko Peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan. {Quat Res}, 47: 39-49 (in Japanese with English abs)

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/

Rausu is an andesitic-to-dacitic stratovolcano with summit lava domes on the Shiretoko Peninsula in NE Hokkaido. The 1660-m-high volcano is located along a ridge 5 km SW of Shiretoko-Iwo-san volcano, the NE-most Holocene volcano in Hokkaido. Young lava flows descent the NW flank and broad areas along the SE flank of Rausu, and an older lava flow traveled about 9 km to the west, reaching the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk along a broad front. Rausu-dake volcano produced eruptions of pumiceous tephras with associated pyroclastic flows about 2200, 1400, and 800 years ago. Recent work has documented a pyroclastic-flow deposit that overlies the 1739 tephra from Tarumai volcano in SW Hokkaido. Stratigraphic relationships place this eruption, the most recent known from Rausu, between about 1750 and 1850 AD.