Volcano erupts in Japan; injuries reported

Japan, where a camera is more important that getting the Hell out of there.

21 posted on 09/27/2014 4:05:31 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)

22 posted on 09/27/2014 4:07:07 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)

"The islands of Japan are located in a volcanic zone on the Pacific Ring of Fire. They are primarily the result of large oceanic movements occurring over hundreds of millions of years from the mid-Silurian to the Pleistocene as a result of the subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate beneath the continental Amurian Plate and Okinawa Plate to the south, and subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Okhotsk Plate to the north. Japan was originally attached to the eastern coast of the Eurasian continent. The subducting plates pulled Japan eastward, opening the Sea of Japan around 15 million years ago.[77]

Japan has 108 active volcanoes. Destructive earthquakes, often resulting in tsunami, occur several times each century.[78] The 1923 Tokyo earthquake killed over 140,000 people.[79] More recent major quakes are the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake and the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, a 9.0-magnitude[80] quake which hit Japan on March 11, 2011, and triggered a large tsunami.[52] Due to its location in the Pacific Ring of Fire, Japan is substantially prone to earthquakes and tsunami, having the highest natural disaster risk in the developed world.[81]"

Source: Wikipedia

23 posted on 09/27/2014 4:09:44 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)

To: Wally_Kalbacken

Those folks can’t catch a break!

The island nation of Japan exists BECAUSE of geological instability.

24 posted on 09/27/2014 4:10:33 PM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)

25 posted on 09/28/2014 12:47:29 AM PDT by blueplum

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