The mountain continued to erupt until evening, expending the power of 20,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs. In those nine hours, the top 1/4 and entire center of the mountain disappeared, leaving a vast, gaping, horseshoe-shaped crater.
Mlima uliendelea kufoka hadi jioni, ukazidi nguvu kiwango cha bomu la atomiki sawa na lile la kiwango cha 20000 cha bomu la Hiroshima katika masaa tisa, ¼ ya juu na katikati ya mlima ilitoweka huku pengo linalofanana na guu la farasi likibaki.