The 1914-1915 eruption of Mount Sakurajima in Japan’s southernmost major island of Kyushu spread volcanic ash as far as eastern Japan. A massive and devastating eruption is bound to hit Japan ...

Nishinoshima was one of Japan’s leading seabird breeding grounds ... and a large amount of volcanic ash covered the entire island the following year. Contrary to the expectation of researchers ...

5 fast facts about volcanoes Volcanic ash is made of fragments of rocks ... and it sits on a seamount east of Japan, its summit 6,500 feet (1,980 m) below the ocean surface.

Natural disasters, from wildfires, floods and mudslides in western states to large earthquakes in Japan, have rocked ... just ...

Natural disasters, from wildfires, floods and mudslides in western states to large earthquakes in Japan, have rocked ... just days before the Hawaii volcano. With ash emissions and other smaller ...