Posted on 10/29/2021 2:49:49 AM PDT by blueplum
The biggest underwater volcanic eruption Japan has seen since the end of WWII has left shores covered in pumice stone. In one video, stones are seen covering the waves, while images show fishing ports inundated with volcanic rock.
The volcano, Fukutoku-Okanoba, is situated on the Ogasawara island chain, about 800 miles from Tokyo. It sits about 25 meters below the surface of the sea....
...Huge quantities of pumice stone ejected from the volcano have now started washing up along coastlines in the Okinawa Prefecture....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
video at link
another oddity:
WWII ‘ghost ships’ appear in Japan after volcanic eruption
https://www.9news.com.au/world/wwii-ghost-ships-appear-in-japan-after-fukutoku-okanoba-volcanic-eruption/1f34b38d-2e1c-4b19-b4ef-4c17e217b9cf
I must be the climate change!
Cool!
Someone needs to load that stuff up and make some money.
Yep! It’s raining soup, if they can organize to exploit it.
Yes, they and many other industries use pumice.
Lots of uses for polishing stuff.
Freaky but cool video.
/super happy it’s not going on in my back yard, though :D
There’s a lot of that going on. Kilauea, La Palma.
Horrifying factoid: At least half of the residences affected by both volcanos were/are under or uninsured.
Sigh.
I agree.
Naturally, if it were raining soup, many would have brought their forks but not their spoons.
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As for Kilauea it's hard to get insurance when you buy land in an active volcanic zone (it's cheap though). They are rated 1-5 and IIRC Zone 1 is the most active, ie. the rift zone.
It is amazing the difference in housing prices on the Big Island of HI. A house on the Kona side is 4x the price of one on the Hilo side. Of course, it rains a little more on the Hilo side.
it’s getting thick and starting to cause an issue with boats, clogging intakes, etc.
more video:
unique video clip from LaPalma - lava bomb! (I’ve been watching this crazy volcano for weeks - spectacular!)
It’s hard, but not impossible.
From 2018...
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