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- Kikai Caldera's magma chamber refills, according to researchers from Kobe University and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology.
- Kikai Caldera lies off Kyushu.
- Kikai Caldera produced the largest Holocene eruption 7,300 years ago.
- The Akahoya eruption expelled 160 cubic kilometers.
- The study proposes a new magma re-injection model relevant to calderas like Yellowstone and Toba.
