{"id":2948,"date":"2019-01-18T05:03:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T05:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2019-01-18T05:03:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T05:03:01","slug":"volcano-erupts-in-southern-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2019\/01\/18\/volcano-erupts-in-southern-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Volcano erupts in Southern Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TOKYO \u2022 A volcano in southern Japan erupted yesterday, spewing ash and smoke 6km into the air over a small island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were no reports of injuries or damage from the eruption on Kuchinoerabu in Kagoshima prefecture in the far south of Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A local official said there were no evacuations on the island, which is home to just 109 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Images broadcast by NHK show large plumes of ash and grey smoke billowing above the island, which regularly experiences eruptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We heard a huge explosion and there was shaking like an earthquake,” a resident told NHK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meteorological agency said the eruption occurred shortly after it had issued a new warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There have been eruptions there since last year but we sent an alert out (this morning) for this latest eruption as it will have a wider impact,” said Mr Jun Fujimatsu, an official at the agency’s volcanic activity division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“We have maintained a level three warning, which means a ban on entering the volcano area,” he told Agence France-Presse (AFP). “There are several craters at the volcano… The danger zone is 2km from the Shindake crater.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added: “We do not think the latest eruption will engulf the entire island.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said the plume of smoke and ash from the eruption rose 6,000m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“But there is no impact on the community and no injury or damage has been reported,” he told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are “71 households comprising 109 people living on the island, including some who are just a few kilometres from the crater”, local official Shogo Sado told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He confirmed no evacuations had yet been ordered but said preparations were being made in case it became necessary to move people, some of whom are elderly and frail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, all 140 people living on the island were evacuated after a violent eruption that sent black clouds up as high as 9,000m and produced a five-minute volcanic quake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japan, with scores of active volcanoes, sits on the so-called Pacific “Ring of Fire”, where a large proportion of the world’s earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January last year, a Japanese soldier was killed and several other people injured after an eruption near a popular ski resort north-west of the capital Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sept 27, 2014, Japan suffered its deadliest eruption in almost 90 years when Mount Ontake, in central Nagano prefecture, burst unexpectedly into life.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dozens of people were killed in the shock eruption, which occurred at a time when the peak was packed with hikers viewing the region’s spectacular autumn colours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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