Sakurajima volcano erupted, sending an ash cloud 1,100 meters into the sky in Japan. Officials said the explosive eruption ...

The active Sakurajima stratovolcano in Kagoshima, Japan, erupted on Sunday, sending a huge plume of ash into the sky.

Now, a study published last week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pins the blame on Zavaritskii caldera, ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

Japan is crisscrossed with 111 active volcanoes. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is responsible for monitoring volcanic activity and providing related disaster preparedness information.

At the same time, experts must be trained who can support the endeavor. Japan has 111 active volcanoes, some of which have blown their tops in recent years. They include the 2014 eruption of ...

The eruption was so powerful it caused global temperatures to drop by around 1C and led to widespread crop failures ...

Post-Covid-19 “revenge travel” and the weakest yen in decades have fuelled a tourism boom in Japan, with visitor numbers for 2024 looking certain to exceed 2019’s record of 31.9 million.

The 'mystery volcano' was Zavaritskii, also spelled as Zavaritsky. It is situated on Simushir Island, a part of the Kuril Islands archipelago -- a disputed area by Russia and Japan. As per their ...

The Zavaritskii volcano on Simushir Island in the Kuril Islands north of Japan was the culprit. The 1831 eruption threw huge quantities of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, lowering global ...

According to the analysis, the mystery volcano was Zavaritskii (also spelled Zavaritsky) on Simushir Island, part of the Kuril Islands archipelago, an area disputed by Russia and Japan. Before the ...

scientists traced the eruption to Zavaritskii volcano on the extremely remote island of Simushir, which is part of the disputed Kuril Islands between Russia and Japan. During the Cold War ...