Rare Video: New Island Emerges Off Japan Coast After Volcano Eruption
The Japanese coast guard and earthquake experts say a volcanic eruption has raised a new island in the seas to the far south of Tokyo.
Pictures filmed by the Japanese coast guard showed clouds of heavy smoke, billowing steam and waters roiling over the newly-formed crater.
Advisories from the coast guard and the Japan Meteorological Agency said the islet is about 200 metres (660 feet) in diameter.
It is just off the coast of Nishinoshima, a small, uninhabited island in the Ogasawara chain, which is also known as the Bonin islands.
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