VIDEO: Japanese Volcano Blows Its Top
By Mark MemmottVIDEO: Japanese Volcano Blows Its Top
By Mark Memmott
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Dormant for about 300 years, Japan’s Shinmoedake is very awake now.
The Associated Press says that the “revived Japanese volcano threw boulders for miles and broke windows 5 miles away in its biggest explosion yet” earlier today. “The blast sent a huge plume of gas and ash into the sky and officials widened the danger zone to keep residents away.” It was “the biggest since the Shinmoedake (sheen-moy-DAH’-keh) volcano burst to life last week.”
Reuters has this video from the scene in southern Japan: Copyright 2011 National Public Radio. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.