Japanese volcano Mount Aso on island of Kyushu erupts

[Little Tich]

Source: The Guardian

Japanese TV shows huge plumes of ash and smoke billowing from volcano on the country’s southernmost main island

Mount Aso, a volcano located on Japan’s southernmost main island of Kyushu, erupted on Monday, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said, sending up huge plumes of grey ash and smoke.

Japan lies on the “Ring of Fire” – a horseshoe-shaped band of fault lines and volcanoes around the edges of the Pacific ocean – and is home to more than 100 active volcanoes.

Last year, Mount Ontake in central Japan erupted unexpectedly, killing 63, the worst volcanic disaster for nearly 90 years. In May, a remote island south of Kyushu was evacuated due to another eruption.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/14/japanese-volcano-mount-aso-on-island-of-kyushu-erupts

[MADem]

1. Largest volcano in Japan, one of the largest in the world....it erupted last November, too....

Old footage from a year (almost) ago:

[0rganism]

2. wow, Japan's getting slammed this year

all those floods, now a huge volcano
plus the messup with the Olympics logo
seems like they can't catch a break lately

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Which Repug is this volcano named after ? nt

[jmowreader]

9. There's not a one of them that isn't an Aso

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. I visited Aso in 1978 on a bus tour

The guide told us that if the mountain began spitting up boulders, as it sometimes does, we should head for the shelters carved into the side of the mountain. Fortunately, the mountain was in a good mood that day and did absolutely nothing.

[youceyec]

5. its gods punishment

for the way they treat our dolphin friends.

[Art_from_Ark]

6. Kyushu's heating up

Four of its 17 active volcanoes have erupted so far this year--
Asosan, Sakurajima, Kuchinoerabujima, and Suwanosejima.

http://www.data.jma.go.jp/svd/vois/data/fukuoka/volcanofk.html

[davidpdx]

7. Interesting times in Japan

It is a lot quieter over here in Korea if you want to join us.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. Kyushu's actually closer to you than it is to me

Although I'll have to admit that last week's flood was a little too close for comfort.

[Lodestar]

10. Magma on the move all around the globe. I worry particularlly for Japan.

They are just a sliver perched precariously on the edge of a very active ring.

[Art_from_Ark]

11. There are more than 100 active volcanoes in Japan,

and the country straddles 4 different tectonic plates. A precarious perch, indeed.

[AngryAmish]

12. Ghidora, I guar-un-dam-tee it.