The active Sakurajima stratovolcano in Kagoshima, Japan, erupted on Sunday, sending a huge plume of ash into the sky. Dramatic timelapse footage captured the ash cloud shooting from the volcano's ...

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: ...

16), blasting fountains of lava hundreds of feet into the air and emitting thousands of tons of toxic volcanic gas — you can watch the eruption live in the video above. The U.S. Geological ...

Japan is crisscrossed with 111 active volcanoes. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is responsible for monitoring volcanic activity and providing related disaster preparedness information.

The eruption's knock-on effects may have been deadly: lower global temperatures preceded major famines in India and Japan in the 1830s, according to the study. "We know with large volcanic ...

The 'mystery volcano' was Zavaritskii, also spelled as Zavaritsky. It is situated on Simushir Island, a part of the Kuril Islands archipelago -- a disputed area by Russia and Japan. As per their ...