The Sakurajima volcano erupted, sending ash clouds over towns in Japan on January 19. Dramatic timelapse footage shows the volcano releasing a plume of ash 2,000 metres above the crater around 3: ...

Sakurajima is one of Japan's most active volcanoes, with a history of frequent eruptions. Originally an island, it became a peninsula after a significant eruption in 1914.

Japan’s Meteorological Agency said Sakurajima on the southern island of Kyushu erupted at around 7 p.m. (1000 GMT). Japanese television showed an orange burst out of the side of the volcano ...

said the mountain's features are an outlier even among volcanoes in Japan. “It is impossible to predict not only the timing of eruptions but also what kind of eruptive phenomena may occur,” he ...

Deadly volcanic activity in Japan in recent years includes the 1993 eruption of Mount Unzen’s Fugendake and the 2014 eruption of Mount Ontakesan in central Japan. Both incidents killed dozens of ...

TOKYO, December 28. /TASS/. The government of Japan established an anti-crisis center over the eruption of the Otake volcano on the island of Suwanose-jima that began early Monday. Explosions rock ...

TOKYO, April 19. /TASS/. A new volcano eruption has been observed on Mount Aso in Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan Meteorological Agency said on Friday. This is the second eruption on Mount Aso ...

Japan’s Meteorological Agency raised the eruption alert to the highest level of five and advised 51 residents in two towns facing the volcano to leave their homes. By Monday morning, 33 of them ...

Their latest research uncovered every crater in Japan that has erupted in the past 10,000 years. They identified unmarked craters with eruption risks in at least 21 volcanoes. "All craters have ...

Using new ice core techniques, scientists have concluded that the dark, chilly year of 1831 was due to the massive eruption of a volcano north of Japan. The year 1831 was a very nasty one in terms ...

The explosive eruption had rapidly melted much of ... More than three-quarters of the town's citizens perished. The worst volcanic disaster in Japan's history occurred in the Unzen volcano complex ...

The most recent report includes five new eruptive sites and 21 continuing eruptions ... to mind when thinking of volcanoes are on the list — Iceland, Hawaii, Japan, Central America, Papua ...