Islands can literally pop out of nowhere if an underwater volcano begins to erupt and recently, just off the coast of Japan, that’s exactly what happened. Experts now say the violent eruption has produced a small land mass near the Ogasawara archipelago.
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00:00Islands can literally pop out of nowhere if an underwater volcano begins to
00:07erupt. And recently just off the coast of Japan that's exactly what happened.
00:11These images show that violent eruption that experts now say has produced a
00:15small landmass near the Ogasawara archipelago. The eruption began on
00:19October 21st with what volcanologist Setsuya Nakata told the Japan Times was
00:24a vertical jet of solidified magma that shot high above sea level. The eruption
00:28was afterwards kept going by relatively constant underground volcanic bursts.
00:32Eventually all of that volcanic material landed back in the water and began to
00:36build up resulting in the volcanic island that resides there now. They say
00:40the volcanic eruption was still going more than a week later but by November
00:443rd it was simply blowing ash into the sky. Experts say the island is now around
00:48a mile wide but the eruption is still happening. Though because it's no longer
00:52spewing lava it's unlikely to grow much larger at least at the moment. And Nakata
00:56says that's pretty much par for the course with regards to volcanoes around
00:59Japan where a month of eruption is fairly standard. Japan resides in an area
01:03known as the Ring of Fire, a volcanically active portion of the
01:06Pacific Ocean that stretches across the globe.