Spectaculaire uitbarstingen vulkaan Sakurajima in Japan

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Een spectaculaire vulkaanuitbarsting is momenteel gaande in Japan. De vulkaan spuwt as kilometers hoog de lucht in. Mount Kirishima, een vulkaan, dat gelegen is op het zuidelijke eiland Kyushu, begon met uitbarsting op 26 januari. Een gigantische aswolk spuwde de vulkaan uit, de aswolk bereikte een hoogte van zo'n 7,6 kilometer. In de stad Tokyo is een aswaarschuwing afgegeven. Vulkanisch materiaal dat van de vulkaan afkomt kan er voor zorgen dat er pyroclastische stromen voor kunnen komen.

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Er zijn meldingen binnen gekomen dat de vulkaan Kirishima lava uitstoot die een hoogte bereiken van 2 kilometer, maar beelden van de uitbarsting laten zien dat het bij een paar honderd meter blijft. Kirishima staat in verbinding met een grotere groep van "vulkanen" op het eiland. Deze "vulkanen" zijn erg actief, maar hebben meestal kleine explosieve uitbarstingen. Deze uitbarsting die momenteel gaande is kan wel eens de grootste uitbarsting worden sinds 1959.

霧島連山新燃岳噴火 lightning japan mount Shinmoedake volcano

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Alert level raised for Japanese volcano

Smoke and ash continue to spew from Mount Shinmoedake in southern Japan.

Local officials have raised the alert level and banned residents from going within a 1.2 mile radius of the volcano in the Kagoshima Prefecture.

There was a small eruption on Wednesday with the plume of smoke reaching as high as 4920 feet at one point, distributing volcanic ash across surrounding villages.

Residents as far as four miles away said their windows had trembled and they were kept awake by the loud rumbling sound.

The persistent ash has blocked visibility in the surrounding area and has made the roads slippery and treacherous for motorists.

Train services in the area have been suspended, with some flights to the area cancelled, but so far there have been no reports of damage or injuries.

Fans of 007 may recognize Mount Shinmoedake, as Bond villain Ernst Blofeld had his secret underground base in the volcano in the film You Only Live Twice.

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Spectaculaire uitbarsting in Japan
TOKYO - Op het Japanse eiland Kyushu is de vulkaan Mount Kirishima tot uitbarsting gekomen. De vulkaan spuwt stof, lava en as kilometers hoog de lucht in. De vulkaan begon de uitbarsting op 26 januari. In de Japanse hoofdstad Tokyo is een aswaarschuwing afgegeven.
Dat meldt de website onweer-online.

Vulkanisch materiaal dat van de vulkaan afkomt kan ervoor zorgen dat er pyroclastische stromen voor kunnen komen, een van de verwoestendste effecten van een vulkaanuitbarsting. De golven bestaan uit vaste of halfvloeibare lava, gas, rotsen en as. Ze kunnen temperaturen bereiken tot circa 850 �C en snelheden van circa 725 km/u bereiken.

De Kirishima staat in verbinding met een grotere groep van vulkanen op het eiland. Deze vulkanen zijn erg actief, maar hebben meestal kleine explosieve uitbarstingen. De uitbarsting die momenteel gaande is kan wel eens de grootste uitbarsting worden sinds 1959.

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Op donderdag 27 januari 2011 10:07 schreef JohnnyKnoxville het volgende:
Ah, vanmorgen op RTL Nieuws ook al beelden van met as bedekte groenten.
Het is wel aardig bezig met vulkanen de laatste tijd, of lijkt dat maar zo?

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Japanese volcano awakens with a vengeance
Officials in southern Japan have urged more than 1,000 residents of a town near an erupting volcano to evacuate amid reports of large rocks falling in the area.

Mount Shinmoe's first major eruption in almost 200 years is sending plumes of ash and rocks kilometres into the sky.

The eruption, on the southern island of Kyushu, has disrupted flights and train services and sparked warnings about another, even more powerful blast.

More than 600 people have already been evacuated.

Vulcanologists say a giant lava dome on the volcano has now grown to more than 500 metres in diameter.

For some people living near the volcano it is nothing more than a nuisance, but for others it is like a biblical curse.

"It's good that it's not hovering in the air," a used car lot owner said, taking a break from shovelling up the mess.

"But it's getting heavier and harder to clean up. This ash piled up on the cars will be hard to remove," he complained, as his once immaculate lot of cars sits under centimetres of grey paste - the windscreen wipers on each vehicle sticking forlornly up in the air.

The mayor of Takaharu, a town near the volcano, says people have never seen Mount Shinmoe like it is.

"It's the first time the people of my community have experienced volcanic ash like this, so we are very concerned about their health," Mitsuhiro Hidaka said.

With 108 active volcanoes, or 10 per cent of the world's total, Japan shakes precariously on the infamous Pacific Rim of Fire.

The Japanese are wearily familiar with eruptions like Mount Shinmoe's, but scientists warn there could be worse to come.

In the past nine months vulcanologists estimate seven million cubic metres of magma has accumulated in two vast reservoirs underneath the peak and small pyroclastic flows, or super-heated clouds of gas travelling at up to 700 kilometres per hour, have been seen sweeping down Mount Shinmoe.

The volcano's behaviour is said to be eerily similar to its belligerent demeanour 300 years ago, when it belched and bellowed on and off for 18 months.

For the people living around Shinmoedake, this is just the latest biblical-style cataclysm.

"We're still recovering from the foot and mouth outbreak," Mr Mitsuhiro said.

"Then came the avian flu. Now the first eruption of the Shinmoedake volcano in 52 years. It is indeed a triple blow of disasters we're suffering from now."

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Volcano evacuation zone widens

MIYAZAKI (Kyodo) Officials in Takaharu, Miyazaki Prefecture, have told about 500 households to evacuate because the eruption of Mount Kirishima's Shinmoedake peak on the border with Kagoshima could trigger landslides and send boulders flying.

Takaharu issued the recommendation at around midnight Sunday after the Miyazaki Local Meteorological Observatory said the lava dome on the 1,421-meter peak was rising. The warning could affect as many as 1,100 residents.

About 610 people had evacuated to four shelters as of Monday morning, the town said.

The Kagoshima Local Meteorological Observatory, however, said the degree of risk is not high enough to issue such a recommendation.

According to the Kagoshima observatory, satellite images of the volcano show that the lava dome, which was 100 meters in diameter Thursday, had grown to about 500 meters in diameter on Saturday.

At Shinmoedake peak, small eruptions have continued since it spewed ash and rocks in its first major eruption in 189 years last week, disrupting traffic and people's lives.

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Japan volcano blast smashes windows

TOKYO — A volcano in southwestern Japan shot ash and rocks up to 2,000 metres into the air with the blast shattering windows miles away in a huge explosion, officials said.

Authorities widened the danger zone around the 1,421-metre (4,689-feet) Shinmoedake volcano in the Kirishima range, which has been belching smoke and ash since Wednesday.

The latest blast came shortly before 8:00 am (2300 GMT Monday).

Flying shards from broken hospital windows left a 92-year-old woman with hand and facial injuries, a Kirishima city official told AFP, adding that nearly 200 windows were smashed at schools and public halls.

After the eruption, the Japan Meteorological Agency revised its warning, widening the area at risk from flying debris from three to four kilometres from the peak.

More than 600 residents of the town of Takaharu in Miyazaki prefecture have been forced to evacuate and take shelter in school halls and community centres.

The dome of lava inside the crater, which grows as pressure increases from below, has been expanding quickly amid concerns it could spill over the rim of the volcano and flow down the sides of the mountain.

It is the volcano's first major eruption in 52 years, billowing grey smoke into the sky, leading to train and flight cancellations, with television footage showing residents shovelling ash from streets.

A nearby observatory has raised its five-scale warning level on the volcano from two to three, restricting access to the entire mountain.

In April last year the eruption of the Eyjafjoell volcano in Iceland dispersed a vast cloud of ash triggering a huge shutdown of airspace that affected more than 100,000 flights and eight million passengers.

Raw Video: Japanese Volcano Erupts Again

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Japan widens restricted area zone

Japanese authorities expanded a restricted zone near a volcano on the southern island of Kyushu on concerns it could emit molten lava, after an eruption last week caused the cancellation of more than 60 flights.

Shinmoedake, a 1,421-metre volcano, formed a lava dome in its crater that has grown from 10 to 500 meters in diameter, Japan's Meteorological Agency said. The agency widened a restricted zone to 3km and warned the lava might spill out of the crater.

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New eruption early Wednesday
Kyushu, Japan: Mount Shinmoe volcano in southwestern Japan erupted early on Wednesday, its sixth eruption since last week, spewing columns of smoke up to a height of almost 2,000 meters.

Japan's Meteorological Agency said said it had received no reports of damage from the area around the 1,421-meter high volcano, but rocks and ash have been raining over the nearby towns causing broken windows and damaging crops.

On Tuesday the 1500 meter high volcano had erupted sending plumes of smoke hundreds of feet in the air, and breaking windows as far as 5 miles away.

Hundreds of local residents have been evacuated to safer areas as further eruptions are expected.

The Shinmoedake volcano has seen some major activity in the last week after staying dormant for the last 52 years.