Unbelievable footage of one of the largest volcanos in world as it erupts in Japan – The footage is just amazing ! !
A volcano in Japan has erupted sending a huge ash cloud 3.5 km (2.2 miles) into the sky.
Mount Aso is located on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu, and erupted on Wednesday just before midday there.
Officials have said there may be a danger of lava flows and falling rocks, but so far there were no reports of people being injured.
Ash has been falling in nearby towns in the region of Kumamoto and the alert level has been raised to three on a scale of five, which tells people not to go near the area.
Mount Aso last erupted in 2019, but this is a much larger seismic event.
Japan experiences a lot of volcanic eruptions each year, with over 100 active volcanos in the country.
Earthquakes are also common with about 20 percent of the world’s largest earthquakes happening in Japan. Read more from Newsround
Behind the white smoke that covered the mountain top, black smoke suddenly spewed violently.
Volcanic ash from the crater hits the camera lens hard.
At around 11:43 am, Mount Aso, one of the active volcanoes in Kumamoto prefecture, Kyushu, in southern Japan, erupted.
After the eruption, the ash rose to 3,500 meters above sea level and hot volcanic eruptions dropped to 1,300 meters in the west.
Among the 5 alert levels for Mount Aso, a level 3 warning has been issued, which means ‘restriction to mountaineering’.
Fortunately, there were no casualties, but the Korean Meteorological Agency has warned that volcanic activity on Mt.
Mount Aso is Japan’s representative active volcano, stretching 17 kilometers from east to west and 25 kilometers from north to south.
Also recently large and small eruptions have occurred on this mountain.
In 2016, an explosive eruption occurred and volcanic ash rose up to 11 km above the ground.
During the eruption, “analyzes” such as lava fragments or rock fragments sometimes fly in, but in the 1958 eruption of Mount Aso, 12 people were killed as a result of such analytical damage Read more from Remo
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