<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 8/1/2006 5:34:13 PM Mountain Standard Time, WHITLEVM@uwec.edu writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>There was also a video of a "geyser" at Suwa Lake, Japan. A caption said it erupts every hour. The video showed a steaming hole but I didn't see an eruption.  Is there really a geyser there?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>I am not familiar with this place, but I can say that Japan "boasts" a great many erupting wells, and probably this is one. Per a Japanese volcanologist who wrote in 2003, the only active, natural geysers in Japan are at Onikobe (Honshu) and, possibly-maybe Shikabe (Hokkaido).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>