Mount Ontake searchers recover body from September eruption

A body recovered after search operations on Mount Ontake resumed was identified as that of a 45-year-old man from Kai, Yamanashi Prefecture, the Nagano Prefectural Police said Saturday.

The body of Tetsuya Inooka was found Friday on the mountain that straddles the border between Nagano and Gifu prefectures. His remains were identified by relatives as well as DNA analysis.

Police concluded Inooka died after being hit by falling rocks during the sudden eruption last Sept. 27.

Inooka was one of six people still been listed as missing in the wake of the 3,067-meter-high volcano’s eruption.

“I’m relieved (the body) was found early,” said Koichi Inooka, Tetsuya’s 53-year-old brother. “I want to say ‘Welcome home.'”

Inooka was on the mountain with his wife, Hiromi, 42, when the volcano erupted. Hiromi was later found dead.

Inooka’s body, buried under a layer of volcanic ash, was found shortly after midday by a search team dispatched from the Gifu side.

Saturday 1 August 2015

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Teams return to Mount Ontake to search for bodies, eight months on

Search teams returned to the peak of Mount Ontake on Wednesday for the first time in eight months to continue looking for the bodies of six hikers missing since the volcano erupted.

The disaster left 63 people dead or missing, bludgeoned by rocks and buried beneath scalding ash. Rescue work was called off last year when winter set in.

Around 50 people, including police, firefighters and volcanologists, began an exploratory ascent of the mountain in Nagano Prefecture with a view to resuming a full-scale search next month, after the conclusion of Japan’s annual rainy season.

The 3,067-meter peak was thronged with hikers viewing the region’s spectacular autumn colors when it burst unexpectedly to life on Sept. 27 last year.

It was Japan’s deadliest eruption in almost 90 years.

Dramatic mobile phone footage taken by survivors showed rocks raining down as clouds of ash engulfed people close to the summit.

Search and rescue teams last year trudged through thick, clay-like ash to recover 57 bodies in sometimes treacherous conditions, despite fears over toxic fumes and a possible further eruption.

The operation was suspended in October as autumn’s rains began to give way to snow, which soon made the peak impassable.

“There is a part of me that feels rather worried about what it is like up there,” said senior police officer Noriyuki Hayashi, of Nagano prefectural police, as the team prepared to ascend Mount Ontake. “But we will do what we can.”

The team observed a moment of silence below the mountain, which — even in the summer months of June — still has snow-covered ravines.

Aerial footage showed the searchers’ bright outerwear set against the gray lunar landscape of the ash-covered peak.

Ontake is one of scores of active volcanoes across the country, which sits on the so-called “Ring of Fire,” where a large proportion of the world’s quakes and eruptions are recorded.

Last month, authorities evacuated Kuchinoerabu Island, off the coast of Kyushu, when a volcano erupted there.

Autopsies on bodies recovered from Ontake last year revealed many of them died from injuries caused by flying rocks.

That led to a recommendation in March that people who climb Mount Fuji — also a volcano — should carry helmets and goggles with them.

Wednesday 10 June 2015

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A month after Japanese volcano eruption, six remain missing

Monday marks one month of the Ontake volcano eruption, the most deadly in Japan since 1926, which killed 57 people and left six others missing after search operations were suspended due to the first snowfall at the top.

Families of the victims and representatives of local authorities gathered and observed one minute of silence in the central regions of Kiso and Otaki neighbouring the Ontake, at the same time the volcano erupted Sep 27.

Residents of both towns also placed a wreath at the foot of the mountain to “sympathise with the inhabitants of the regions and pray for the volcano to calm down”, one of the organisers of the event said in statements to Kyodo agency.

On Oct 16, following the first snowfall at the top of the mountain, Japanese authorities decided to postpone the search for the six missing people until next spring, because of the risk of avalanches, landslides and low visibility.

The rescue teams had already combed most of the volcanic region and found 57 bodies.

Mount Ontake is the second highest volcano in Japan at 3,067 metres and is located about 100 km from Nagoya city.

It erupted Sep 27 when hundreds of people were hiking in the surrounding foothills and at the summit.

It is estimated that some 250 people were able to flee the area or were evacuated, 69 of whom suffered injuries, mostly bruises, fractures and burns.

The eruption was the country’s worst volcanic disaster since 1926 when Mount Tokachi in northern Hokkaido blew its top, killing 144 people and injuring another 210.

As the skiing season approaches, local authorities have also launched a campaign to ensure that tourism does not suffer in the mountainous region that is home to many ski resorts.

Meanwhile, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) maintains the level of volcanic alert for Ontake at three on a scale of five, meaning another eruption is possible, and access to the mountain and its surroundings is restricted.

Monday 27 October 2014

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Japan volcano toll reaches 52, 12 still missing

Rescue workers today found two bodies in the ash on a volcano in central Japan, where at least 12 hikers are still unaccounted for following an eruption known to have killed 51 others.

One body was air-lifted by military helicopter, according to a crisis-management official at the Nagano prefectural government.

Public broadcaster NHK said another had been found, but there were no details on how far the recovery had got.

It is unknown whether the bodies are those of some of the 12 people unaccounted for.

A search operation involving some 1,000 police, troops and firefighters resumed early Tuesday after a two-day hiatus because of atrocious weather.

Aerial footage showed rescuers walking with difficulty through a knee-deep clay-like mixture of ash and water.

The 3,067 metre (10,121 feet) Mount Ontake erupted without warning on September 27, while it was packed with hikers.

Autopsies have revealed that walkers, many of whom had been enjoying lunch at the peak in the autumn sunshine, died largely from injuries caused by stones hurled out in the initial explosive eruption.

Tuesday 7 October 2014

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Japan volcano eruption: Three more bodies found on Mt Ontake, 16 still missing as Typhoon Phanfone approaches

Authorities have found three more bodies on a still-smouldering Japanese volcano after the search was stalled by heavy rain.

Adding to the difficulties facing rescuers, an oncoming typhoon threatens to further hamper the recovery operation.

Local authorities said 16 people were still unaccounted for on Mt Ontake, which erupted a week ago. It was not immediately clear if the three bodies found on Saturday were included in that figure.

The bodies of 47 other victims have already been retrieved from the mountain.

Rescue workers have spoken of up to 50-centimetre thick, sticky ash smothering the slopes, with some of the dead found half-buried, leading to fears others may be entombed.

"Rescuers found a total of three more people in cardiac arrest today, and are now preparing to carry them down," a local police spokesman said.

Only doctors can declare someone officially dead, so first responders typically report that someone's heart has stopped and they are not breathing.

About 930 troops, firefighters and police restarted their search on Saturday morning after heavy rain had suspended their recovery operation since Thursday afternoon.

Television footage showed soldiers in camouflage with gas masks hurriedly getting on a military helicopter departing to the peak, while scores of rescuers were carefully walking up an ash-covered path to the summit.

Rescuers were using hand-held metal detectors and sticking poles into the ground in a bid to find victims possibly buried under the ash.

Mt Ontake was packed with walkers when it burst angrily to life a week ago.

Local residents, government officials and rescuers standing by near the base of the mountain prayed in silence for one minute at 11:52am local time Saturday, the exact moment when the volcano exploded seven days earlier.

The volcano continues to emit steam and poisonous fumes, making a section near the crater inaccessible.

Meanwhile, a powerful typhoon looming off the Japanese coast looked set to batter the country over the coming days.

Typhoon Phanfone is predicted to slam into Japan with strong winds and high waves this weekend or later, the meteorological agency said.

Packing gusts of up to 252kph, Phanfone is moving northwest in the Pacific to curve toward Japan's southwest at a speed of 15kph.

That could force the recovery to be put off for days, drawing out the ordeal for families of those still missing, who are gathered at the foot of the volcano.

Sunday 05 October 2014

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Why is the hunt for bodies on Japanese volcano Mount Ontake proving so difficult?

A combination of difficult terrain, poor weather, toxic gas leaks, the possibility of new eruptions and volcanic ash that is in places knee-deep have turned what should have been a straightforward recovery operation on Japan's Mount Ontake into a drawn-out slog.

Teams drawn from the military, the police, the fire service and local mountain rescue groups once again began scaling the 10,000-foot peak before dawn on Thursday, but they were forced to call off the search shortly before midday as the weather deteriorated.

Experts were particularly concerned that the heavy rainfall would destabilise the thousands of tons of ash that have been ejected from the volcano and settled on its upper slopes.

With more than half-an-inch of rain falling per hour as a typhoon approaches from the south, the waterlogged ash could slide and bury the search teams.

The forecast for Friday and into the weekend is for more rain, which will make recovery efforts on Japan's 14th highest mountain more perilous. Avalanches of ash are just one concern hampering a recovery mission that is low-tech and labour-intensive.

"They're a long way above sea level there, the slopes on all sides are steep and the rescue teams are finding it difficult to move around in that environment," said Professor Shigeo Aramaki, an authority on volcanoes formerly at The University of Tokyo and still works as an adviser to the government.

"As well as the weather, they have detected high levels of poisonous gases in the areas that they need to keep searching and there are repeated volcanic tremors," he told The Telegraph. "And when they are getting those sorts of signs, they simply have to halt the rescue effort."

The death toll presently stands at 47, making the eruption of Mount Ontake Japan's worst volcano disaster since the 1926 eruption of a volcano on Hokkaido, in which 144 people died. Authorities warn, however, that they still have no clear idea of the number of climbers who are still missing.



Hikers are not required to notify local authorities whenever they wish to climb a mountain, a pastime that is particularly popular at this time of the year in Japan, when the autumn foliage is spectacular.

Underlining the scale of the problem, the fire department in the town of Kisofukushima on Tuesday said that 79 people were still missing, although it cut that figure to 71 just a few hours later. The prefectural government subsequently claimed the fire department's announcement was premature, Kyodo News reported, and said in a statement that authorities are still trying to get an exact figure for the missing.

Dozens of relatives of the missing are still waiting for news of their loved-ones at the town hall in Kisofukushima, with many expressing anger at the slow pace of the recovery effort and the lack of news.

The families complained that they were learning more from the television reports than from local authorities.

The first funerals began on Thursday for hikers recovered from the mountain and identified by their families.

Those hit by the rocks and debris had multiple cuts and fractures, particularly in the head and the back, as well as the legs, a prefectural police official said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy. Nagano police had earlier said the victims died of “disaster,” without specifying the cause.

Most of the bodies were found near Mount Ontake’s summit, where many climbers were resting or having lunch. Some bodies were retrieved from a trail at a slightly lower elevation.



Experts say hikers near the summit might have been hit by rocks flying as fast as 300 kilometres per hour. Most of the ash fell in the first hour of the explosion, according to the University of Tokyo’s Earthquake Research Institute.

Survivors said they fled for their lives as rocks and debris rained down on them while they struggled with hot air and ash hitting their face.

Medical experts who have examined some of the nearly 70 injured have said most had bruises, cuts and bone fractures on their back, an apparent sign they were hit by rocks flying out of the volcano. Some of the injured reportedly had damage to their lungs and other organs due to the impact of rocks hitting them.

The eruption at Mount Ontake, located in central Japan, caught hikers by surprise. Seismologists have said that increased seismic activity had been detected at Ontake, one of 47 active volcanoes in Japan that are under 24-hour monitoring, but that nothing signalled such a big eruption.

Thursday 2 October 2014

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Five more bodies found on Japan's Mount Ontake after eruption

Five more bodies have been found on the slopes of Japan's Mount Ontake, bringing the total number of presumed dead in a volcanic eruption Saturday to 36.

Twenty-four bodies still remain on the mountain, while 12 have been recovered, identified and pronounced dead, Nagano Prefecture Police said Monday.

The search for more missing hikers has been suspended due to dangerous conditions at summit. Hydrogen sulfide gas is being spewed from the mountain, police said, putting rescuers in danger.

The volcano in central Japan unleashed a huge cloud of ash late Saturday morning that billowed down the mountainside and engulfed hikers in its path. Witnesses described hearing a sound like thunder when the eruption began.

Relatives of the missing gathered near Mount Ontake over the weekend desperately seeking information. Among them was Kiyokazu Tokoro from nearby Aichi prefecture, whose son, Yuki, was hiking on the volcano with his girlfriend.

He said he knew they were near the summit at the time of the eruption because his son's girlfriend had sent a photo to a friend minutes beforehand.

"All I can do is beg for your help to get information," he told CNN. "Please help us."

Authorities estimated there were 200 to 250 hikers in the area at the time of the eruption. Most of them were reported to have managed to make the long trek down the mountain.

But some people remained trapped in several lodges on Mount Ontake, and others were missing altogether, local authorities said. More than 350 rescue workers -- a mix of police, firefighters and military personnel -- began climbing two separate routes up the mountain on Sunday morning, authorities in the nearby village of Otaki said.

They said they observed 17-20 inches (40-50 centimeters) of volcanic ash covering the ground in some areas.

The Japan Meteorological Agency has raised the Volcanic Alert Level for Ontake from 1 to 3. That means the public is advised to not approach the volcano, the summit of which is at an altitude of 10,060 feet (3,067 meters).

The agency warned that another large eruption could take place in the next six days or so. Small continuous eruptions continued Sunday.

The volcano's plume of smoke and ash was reported to have disrupted air travel in Japan, causing delays at several airports.

Mount Ontake, the second tallest volcano in Japan, after Mount Fuji, is a popular destination for hikers, especially in the fall when the foliage's rich autumn colors are on display.

The last major eruption of Mount Ontake, which is about 125 miles (200 kilometers) west of Tokyo, took place in 1979, according to the Global Volcanism Program at the Smithsonian Institute.

That eruption lasted months, spewing out more than 200,000 tons of ash, the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported.

Japan is one of the world's most seismically active nations - but there have been no fatalities from volcanic eruptions since 1991, when 43 people died at Mount Unzen in the south-west.

Saturday's eruption forced many of those on the mountain to make emergency descents through clouds of volcanic ash and falling rocks.

"The volcanic rocks fell like hailstones," one man said.

"We couldn't breathe so we covered our mouths with towels. We couldn't open our eyes either."

Another told reporters: "The volcanic ash was hurtling so fast I couldn't run away. I'm worried about people still on the mountain."

Almost 50 people were thought to have stayed on the mountain on Saturday night, reports said.

Rescue efforts will resume on Monday after an intense search on Sunday was called off because of toxic volcanic gases in the area.

Japanese officials can only announce deaths after a formal doctor's examination.

The question many people have been asking is - why were there hundreds of people on top of an active volcano? And, why was there no warning it was about to erupt?

The answer to the first question is that there are lots of active volcanos in Japan, and people hike on them all the time. I have done so myself. Mount Fuji is classed as an active volcano, and hundreds of thousands of people climb it every year.

In some ways the people caught in Saturday's eruption were very unlucky. It was a beautiful sunny Saturday at the peak of the autumn hiking season. Had it been a rainy Wednesday in June the chances are very few people would have been up there.

The question of no warning is harder to answer. Volcanologists point out this was a relatively small eruption, and that it was driven by super-heated steam and ash, not by lava being ejected from the magma chamber. That made it much more difficult to predict.

But it also meant that many of those caught up in the eruption survived. Had it been a large-scale eruption (like the one in 1979) with large pyroclastic flows, many more would have been killed.

Monday 29 September 2014

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Search for victims delayed as Indonesia’s Mt Sinabung spews ash into the sky

A new eruption of ash and steam from Indonesia's Mt. Sinabung has put on hold a search for victims of the Saturday's major eruption that has claimed 16 lives.

The volcano erupted at around 10:30 a.m. local time on Saturday, February 1st, just a day after local residents who were previously evacuated due to the eruptions and pyroclastic flows were told that they could return to their homes. This fast-moving flow of hot ash and gas quickly swept down the mountainside, traveling roughly five kilometres away from the crater. It was followed by two more flows over the next hour.

According to reports, search parties checking villages on the volcano slopes recovered 14 bodies, along with three people who had suffered burns. The death toll had risen to 16 on Sunday when another body was discovered and one of the burn victims died of their injuries. All of the victims were from the village of Suka Meriah, which is roughly three kilometres from the volcano. Evacuation zones had stretched out to well beyond that range over the past few weeks, due to the volcano's increased activity. It's still unclear whether those restrictions were lifted prior to the weekend eruption, or if those on the mountainside had simply violated the restrictions put on travel in the area.

A resident runs to escape the billowing ash cloud engulfing their village.Search efforts for victims resumed on Monday, since three people are apparently still missing from the eruption on Saturday. Those efforts had to be delayed, though, when the volcano spewed out another blast of ash and gas, reaching 2.5 kilometres into the sky. This mixture of burning hot ash and poisonous gas would not only have made searching difficult simply due to obscuring everything in the area, but with temperatures reaching several hundred degrees and combined with a mix of poisonous gases, venturing into the area could have been deadly. Authorities were to decide later on Monday if the search would be called off permanently.

At the other end of the island nation, the disaster mitigation agency raised the alert level on Mount Kelud of East Java to level 2, according to state-run Antara News, and there are now around 20 volcanoes in Indonesia that are currently on alert status. The alert statuses of most of the volcanoes are simply to note a level of activity above normal. Mt. Sinabung is at the highest alert level: level 3.

Today, a magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook the sea floor near Kepulauan Barat Daya, and was followed by several aftershocks. These may be unrelated to the volcanic activity, but eruptions are often associated with tremors and earthquakes, as magma shifts under the ground.

Tuesday 04 February 2014

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Death toll climbs after major volcanic eruption in Indonesia

The death toll from the sudden eruption of an active volcano on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island rose to 15, officials said Sunday, as toxic clouds of hot ash hampered search and rescue teams looking for more victims and survivors.

Among the victims from the volcanic activity Saturday in North Sumatra Province were local residents checking on their homes, a journalist and a group of high school students and their teacher, said Yopie Haryadi, a spokesman for Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency.

The teams resumed searching Sunday but were forced to stop and take cover when sirens activated to warn that the area around the volcano, Mount Sinabung, was not safe. One of three people who were injured during Saturday’s eruptions died in a hospital, Mr. Yopie said. Officials have warned that the volcano could erupt again and that the death toll could rise because of people ignoring warnings and returning to their homes.

The bodies of the first 14 victims were recovered Saturday, Mr. Yopie said. “No one is reported missing, but we don’t know for sure,” he said. “Sometimes people can come and go to check on their homes. We will try to search again, but we have to wait until the situation is clear, given the hot clouds.”

He said the first 14 victims were found in the village of Suka Meriah, which lies within a three-mile exclusion zone around the volcano’s crater. The high school students were in the disaster area distributing aid on behalf of the Indonesian Christian Students Movement, according to a local news reporter at the scene.

Around 30,000 people have been evacuated from the area in the weeks after Mount Sinabung resumed erupting in November.

In January, the volcano was erupting dozens of times a day, but it had quieted in recent days. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made a visit to the disaster zone on Jan. 23 to comfort displaced residents camped out in evacuation centers and to discuss reconstruction efforts.

On Friday, local authorities in North Sumatra allowed nearly 14,000 people living outside the danger zone to return home after volcanic activity decreased, said Parlindungan Harahap, a reporter for Sumut Pos, the newspaper in the provincial capital, Medan. Others living close to the peak have been returning home over the past four months despite the dangers.

On Sunday afternoon, officials from the National Board for Disaster Management appeared on national television to deny reports that the agency had authorized evacuees to return home, saying they had placed warning notices and posted guards at access points to Mount Sinabung’s slopes. Some local residents, however, have ignored the warnings and used small, unguarded roads to return to check on their property in recent days.

On Saturday, a series of huge blasts and eruptions from the 8,530-foot-high volcano sent lava and rock flows up to nearly three miles away, according to news reports. Local television reports during the weekend showed giant gray clouds cloaking Mount Sinabung’s crater, farms and roads around the volcano covered in ash, and panicked local residents running away from plumes of smoke.

Television news footage showed people bringing the bodies of some of the 14 victims down the mountain in makeshift rescue vehicles and on motorbikes.

After Saturday’s eruptions, all those who had been allowed to return home on Friday were ordered back into evacuation centers, The Associated Press reported.

Sunday 02 February 2014

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Six killed after Indonesian volcano eruption, search on for children's bodies

Hot lava from an erupting volcano killed six people sleeping in a beach village on a small island in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, after ash and smoke from the volcano shot about a mile into the air, officials said.

Mount Rokatenda in East Nusa Tenggara province erupted early Saturday morning, and nearly 3,000 people have been evacuated from the area on Palue island, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency. The volcano has been rumbling since October.

The victims who died included three adults and two children, said agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, adding that the age of the sixth person killed was unclear. He said that the adults’ bodies were recovered from Ponge beach in Rokirole village, but that the children’s remains had not been found.

Officials continued searching Sunday for the bodies of two children buried by the hot lava as rumbling could still be heard from Mount Rokatenda on the small island of Palue in East Nusa Tenggara province.

Nearly 3,000 people have been evacuated from the area since the volcano erupted early Saturday morning, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency. The volcano had been active since last October.

Tini Thadeus, head of the local disaster agency, said the six victims, who died while sleeping in a beachside village, were among those who had refused to leave last year when evacuations were carried out to establish a safety zone around the volcano.

"On their belief, if all the old villagers abandoned the red (danger) zone, then lava will destroy the residential area," Thadeus said from Kupang, the provincial capital. Among the dead was a 58-year-old woman, the grandmother of the two children who also died.

"But unfortunately, not like in the past, lava from Saturday's eruption flowed northward and hit them," Thadeus said, adding that during earlier eruptions since the 1930s, volcanic material had always flowed southward.

Thadeus said he was not optimistic about recovering the children's bodies since they were buried under hot volcanic material.

He said small explosions could still be heard coming from the peak, which was still spewing smoke up to 600 meters (656 yards) into the sky.

"But all of the villagers have been evacuated out of the danger zone" near the crater, he said.

Video footage on Indonesia’s TVOne showed giant plumes of white and gray smoke and ash belching from the volcano into a sunny blue sky. Prior to Saturday’s eruption, many residents had already been moved to safer areas.

The disaster agency said the volcano spewed ash and smoke about 2km into the air. The eruption lasted about seven minutes, said Frans Wangge, who heads the volcano’s monitoring post.

He said the hot lava burned trees around the beach and villages, and made it difficult to reach the area where the victims were killed.

Domi Dange, a Catholic priest helping those who fled to the district town of Maumere on nearby Flores island, said some residents, who had refused to leave when the area was earlier cleared, were sleeping under tents near the beach. However, details about the six people who were killed and where they were located at the time of the eruption remained unclear.

Local authorities, including police and army officials along with members of a search and rescue agency, were heading to tiny Palue island to help with evacuations.

“We will see the best steps to be taken, but clearly they have to be evacuated,” said Yoseph Ansar Rara, chief of Sikka District, which oversees the island. He said those already evacuated had agreed to be relocated to Flores island.

Mount Rokatenda is one of about 129 active volcanoes in Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands that’s home to some 240m people.

The country is prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity because it sits along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped series of fault lines.

Monday 12 August 2013

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