Posted on 11/08/2023 1:26:11 PM PST by Red Badger
This photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane on Oct. 30, 2023, shows a column of steam rising from the waters off Iwoto Island, previously known as Iwojima, in the Pacific Ocean. A new island of 100 meters in diameter, formed by masses of rock spewed from the plumes, is seen near the steam. (Kyodo)
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A small new island has emerged near Iwoto Island, about 1,200 kilometers south of Tokyo, following underwater volcanic eruptions occurring since late last month, according to a Japanese researcher.
Fukashi Maeno, associate professor at the University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute, said he confirmed phreatomagmatic eruptions took place about 1 km off Iwoto Island in the Pacific and a rocky island with a diameter of around 100 meters as he flew over the site on Oct. 30.
Plumes rose every several minutes during the eruptions, which resulted from magma and seawater interacting, and possibly reached heights of more than 50 meters, occasionally spewing rocks with diameters of several meters, Maeno said.
Pumice stones were spotted floating in waters around the new island, and nearby seawater changed color as a result of the volcanic activity, Maeno said.
Iwoto Island, previously known as Iwojima, is part of the Ogasawara Islands.
According to the Japanese Meteorological Agency, eruptions have also taken place in the area between July and December 2022, as well as June this year. The agency said it believes the latest eruptions began on Oct. 21.
The eruptions "show the resumption of magmatic activity. The new island is expected to grow larger if the eruptions continue, but the outlook remains uncertain," Maeno said.
Ping!.................
The sea level is falling.
They have a new place to drop those who follow below their minimum social credit score. Caldera needs to be fed
What this country needs are more MAGAmatic eruptions !!!
Can’t be. Sea is rising due to climate change.
Beat me to it!
Great pic!!! Surabachi where the flag was raised, in the background.
That’s how those islands got there in the first place.
Make up your mind. Either it's underwater or it's an island. It can't be both.
When I was a kid I remember a story about an island being formed off of some South American country. Big celebration, officials planted a flag, etc. Then a few days later another eruption and it was gone.
No idea if it was true or not but great story.
Go go Godzilla.
5.56mm
“China will claim it’s theirs”
I was just thinking how long it would be before the Chinese build a base there?
The island of Iwojima had its name changed??
Probably already trying to put an outpost there...
China probably has naval base on it already.
Google Earth has 8/17/2022 satellite photo that shows a bit of smoke rising from that same spot. No island visible.
Not exactly changed. From Wikipedia:
The original records of De la Torre's 1543 expedition have been lost,[5] but he does not appear to have separately named Iwo Jima,[6] despite later sources sometimes miscrediting him with the name Sulfur or Sulphur Island (orig. Isla Sufre or de Sufre). Instead, he seems to have only named the Volcano Islands as a group (orig. Balcones)[6] after an eruption—probably on South Iwo Jima—active as his ship passed through the area.[7]
Other Spanish explorers may have named or renamed the island in the years afterward.[8] Certainly, John Gore was aware of Spanish accounts of the area with him[7] when he visited in 1779 and recorded its English name as Sulphur Island.[9]
The name was subsequently calqued into Late Middle Japanese with the Sino-Japanese form and pronunciation Iwōtō or Iwō-tō (硫黄島, イヲウトウ, "Sulfur Island"), still used by the control tower for the remaining airport. In the past this was also sometimes romanized as Iwautau.[10] The native Japanese reading of the same character 島 is shima (leading to the English misreading Iwo Shima), which typically shifts to jima when prefixed by another character. This version is the origin of the English names Iwojima, Iwo-jima,[11] and Iwo Jima, with many variant pronunciations including /ˌiːwoʊˈdʒiːmə/ and /ˌiːwəˈdʒiːmə/.[12][13][14][15] This archaic or mistaken form of the Japanese name was particularly reinforced by its use by the Japanese naval officers who arrived to fortify the island ahead of US invasion during the Second World War.[11]
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