An eruption of the iconic mountain could release 10 times the amount of debris generated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

However, volcano monitoring and research ... passed since a catastrophic eruption caused widespread damage in Japan. But major volcanic disasters have occurred elsewhere: like the 2010 eruption ...

Japan time. That's 11:40 p.m. on Thursday, local time. It added that the blast caused a volcanic plume that was roughly 16,000 meters high. A major volcanic eruption can trigger a tsunami by ...

Authorities said as they raised the alert status to the highest level, and an Australian airline cancelled some flights into ...

Residents have been advised to stay home to avoid panic and stock up on groceries if Mount Fuji erupts and covers Tokyo in ...

The study estimates that a major eruption of Mount Fuji could release ... authorities are monitoring it closely because it’s considered a dormant volcano, not extinct. Professor Takeshi Sagiya ...

Before then, the volcano's most recent major eruptions were in 2016 ... landmass recently emerged after an undersea volcano in Japan blew its top in 2023. Kavachi experiences "phreatomagmatic ...

KAGOSHIMA--A massive eruption occurred at Mount Sakurajima here on the evening of July 24, prompting the Japan Meteorological ... 5 level since May 2015, when a major eruption occurred at Mount ...

Some of the most active volcanoes are located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, which includes New Zealand, Southeast Asia, Japan and the western coast of ... spewing lava and volcanic gas. It is a major ...

Japan Airlines said one of its two Heathrow-bound flights Friday returned to Tokyo’s Haneda international airport, and ...