Reports are breaking in about a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Japan’s remote Bonin islands. But what many of us are not considering is that it happened a day after a volcano erupted in Mount Shindake in Japan’s Kuchinoerabu Issland, on Friday morning.
Japan’s meteorological agency raised the alert level to five – the highest on its scale – and ordered the island’s 140 residents to evacuate.
Here’s footage of that eruption captured using a webcam.
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