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.
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