June 23, 1993 Eruption of Unzendake

Name: June 23, 1993 Eruption of Unzendake
Start: 1993-06-23
Location: Unzendake, Japan

June 23, 1993 · VEI 1 · 1 death

Unzendake in Japan erupted on June 23, 1993 with a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 1. The eruption killed 1 person.

Where it erupted

Unzendake, Japan, with its other significant eruptions.

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The eruption

Date: June 23, 1993
Volcano: Unzendake, complex volcano
Country: Japan
Volcanic Explosivity Index: 1, small (eruption column 100 m to 1 km)
Killed by: Pyroclastic flows, surges and direct blasts
Location: 32.761° N, 130.299° E

The toll

Deaths: 1
Houses destroyed: Few (about 1 to 50)

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

What the record says

NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.

A homeowner entered the avalanche zone to watch his house being burned by a pyroclastic flow and was killed by a second pyroclastic flow.

Other significant eruptions of Unzendake

Every eruption in 1993 The 1900s Unzendake Earthquakes near Unzendake This day in weather history

Sources

Volcanoes and significant eruptions from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. Volcano numbers are the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program’s. NCEI event 4477.