Posted on 05/28/2015 8:37:06 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Evacuations were ordered Friday after a volcano erupted on a small island in the Japanese island chain.
Mount Shindake erupted at 9:57 a.m. Friday, local time, and caused a 4.0-magnitude earthquake, according to the United States Geological Survey.
About 140 people living on the island were ordered to evacuate, the Japanese government said. The Japanese Meteorological Agency raised its volcano level to 5, its highest level, as a result of the eruption.
Pyroclastic flows from the volcano reached the shore, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at accuweather.com ...
NHK talking about serious flight disruptions in Asia.
Realtime Gif of the explosion, from Twitter:
https://twitter.com/nippon_en/status/604098294768250881
Islands population is 147.
NHK Video, in English
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20150529_22.html?play
That’s a cool GIF.
Bush’s fault.
Oh my gosh, prayers up!!
Ditoo... I hope no one was in the way of that pyroclastic flow
Looks like the tape of Mt. St. Helens 35 years ago. BTW isn’t this the island Godzilla came from?
Bump
That was violent.
Godzilla.
Excellent- no one hurt
It did not explode.
It exproded!
Didn’t somebody predict something like this because of a planetary alignment or something???
Thank God
“Global climate in 2016 did not warm as much as forecast due to the eruption of Mount Shindake in May 2015 that emitted over a Gabajillion tons of ash into the atmosphere.”
An impressive explosion which I guess would be classified as Plinian. Here are a bunch of impressive photos. The ones at first are current, further down strange things creep into view. This island is near the southern tip of the Japanese chain of islands. It is a little south of Sakurajima, an active volcano on the edge of a huge caldera at least 15 miles in diameter which blew out around 22,000 years ago. This is around the time the last traces of Neanderthals were found and I wonder if the extent of climate troubles caused by that could have contributed to their end.
Just wait, global climate change will happen, it will get colder and much rainy and even more snow all because of the ash and so forth in the atmosphere. Where is your parka and sorrel boots, because it will be sorely needed.
Yeah I hear bit and pieces
So Godzilla is in town???
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