The deadliest volcanic disaster in Japan’s history did not end with fire or ash, but with water. When the slopes of a restless mountain collapsed into the sea in 1792, the impact hurled a towering ...

A volcano has erupted in Japan, sending plumes of lava and clouds of ash high into the sky. Sakurajima, a stratovolcano in southern Japan, began erupting on Wednesday evening and continued on Thursday ...

Sakurajima volcano in Kyushu, Japan experienced its 162nd explosive event this year, blasting a plume of ash 5,000 feet into the air.

A JUMP IN SEISMIC ACTIVITY HAS FORCED JAPAN TO HALT ITS RECOVERY EFFORTS AT MOUNT ONTAKE FOLLOWING SATURDAY’S ERUPTION THAT KILLED DOZENS OF CLIMBERS – JAPAN’S SELF DEFENSE FORCE HAD PLANNED TO BRING ...

TOKYO (AP) — An undersea volcano erupted off Japan three weeks ago, providing a rare view of the birth of a tiny new island, but experts say it may not last very long. The unnamed undersea volcano, ...

A volcano on Japan’s major western island of Kyushu had multiple eruptions on Sunday, Nov. 16, sending a plume of smoke and ash almost three miles into the air, causing tens of flight cancellations ...

A volcano on Sakurajima in southwestern Japan erupted again on Sunday. The Minamidake crater spewed a column of smoke and ash thousands of meters (yards) into the air. It is the first eruption from ...

A volcano spewed ash and smoke plumes in a spectacular eruption in Japan. Footage captured by the Japanese Coast Guard shows the volcano belching gas and molten material on Niijima island, some 100 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese volcano that figured in a 1960s James Bond movie erupted explosively on Friday for the first time since April, sending smoke thousands of meters into the air, less than a ...

TOKYO (AP) — A volcano erupted on a small island in southern Japan on Friday, spewing black clouds of ash and rock towering into the sky and prompting authorities to tell residents to evacuate the ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted with spectacular, giant lava fountains over the weekend and consumed a U.S. Geological ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's massive 2011 earthquake may trigger more, and larger, volcanic eruptions over the next few decades, perhaps even that of Mount Fuji - but predicting them remains close to ...