ÏH]-; GEE AT ERUPTION OF SAKURA-JIMA IN 1914. 93 



shaken iVom 2 a.:\i. to 3 r.'siP, causing anxiety among the inhabi- 

 tants. It is an island 20 km. in circumference with a population 

 of about 000, of which 300 are laborers on the sulphur mine. 

 For twenty years the volcano had remained comparatively (|uiet. 

 There is a single main cone, 770 m. high, besides 2 parasitic ones. 

 Friedlaender' says, that there are fumaroles and solfataras in the 

 crater, 7-800 m. in diameter and 50 m. deep, as well as in a deep 

 glen on the southern slope. It may not be unreasonable to con- 

 clude that the earthquakes, above referred to, were the manifesta- 

 tions of vulcanism^^ in the zone to which this island and Sakura- 

 jima as well as Kirishima are the appendants (•'^6^6^ Text-fig. 2, p. 



11). 



(3n the 14th, only the eastern vents, as usual, strongly smok- 

 ed and roared ; red-hot lava at night glared at the vents. 



Feb. The east boomed several times and ash was blown 



toward the city, turning it snow-white, and Sakura- 



jima was veiled in ash-mist. Again it rained fi'om 3 r.:M., wliich 



washed off the dust of the city. At Tarumi in Osumi a freshet 



Second of ash-mud broke dams and wrought havoc in the 



delitge village. This was the second ash inundation (p. 92). 



On the 16th, the west was still faintly fuming. The east 



was, however, roaring, and an air- concussion at 10.58 p.m., rattled 



the city windows. Slight ash again fell from 4.40 r.:\i. 



Smokes were low on the east, while the west 



Feb. 



i7th-i8th temporarily woke and roared, and sent out flames at 

 128 a.m. and white clouds at 7.45 a.m. On the 18th, slight de- 



1) Distant earthquakes were recorded in Kagoshima from tlie 13th, 3.31 a.:^[. to the l.jth, 

 5.13 A.M., of which the first was the strongest. 



2) See ante, page 21, footnote (a). 



3) See page 98. This illustrates a case of ' sympathy of alternation ' among the vol- 

 canoes belonging to the same zom (not the regions). See T. A. Jagger, Jr., ' Activity of Mauna 

 Loa, 19U-la: Jmrr. .Tom: Sn., Vol. XL. 191.5, p. «39. 



