00:00In Japan, the Minamidake Crater, a volcano in Sakurajima, in the southwestern area of the archipelago, erupted on Sunday.
00:08The volcanoes put a column of smoke and ash thousands of meters into the earth.
00:13It is the first eruption from the crater since October last year.
00:17Authorities issued an ashfall alert for the surrounding prefectures of Kumamoto, Kagoshima and Miyazaki.
00:25Sakurajima, about 1,000 kilometers southwest of Tokyo. Minamidake is one of Japan's most active volcanoes.
00:33It used to be an island until a lava flow created a land bridge to the Osumi Peninsula during an eruption in 1914 that ended up killing 58 people.
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