Asama-san rages

In Japan, Asama volcano erupted on the island of Honshu. From the crater began to escape the flames shot up a column of smoke up a height of about two thousand meters - as eyewitnesses describe the process of eruption. Later Asama volcano, whose height is 2568 meters, began to fire their neighborhood red-hot stones. They were recorded at a distance of a kilometer from the crater.

Japanese broadcaster NHK also reported that the ash from the eruption of the volcano Asama on the border of the Japanese prefectures of Nagano and Gunma, could be seen on Monday morning for 200 kilometers from the epicenter.
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Asama volcano. Photo: Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry of Japan, AFP.

Asama - one of the most active volcanoes in Japan, he would wake up several times already in this century. In 1783, as a result of the eruption killed about 1, 5 thousand. People. In Japan, there are 108 active volcanoes within the "Ring of Fire Pacific".



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