Volcanic eruption coats Japanese city with ash

[bananas]

Source: Associated Press

A volcano has erupted in southwestern
Japan and coated a nearby city with a layer of ash.

People in Kagoshima city wore masks and raincoats and
used umbrellas to shield themselves from the ash after
the Sakurajima volcano erupted Sunday afternoon.
Drivers turned on their headlights, and local media
described the ash like driving through snow at night.
Railway operators stopped service in the city temporarily
so ash could be removed from the tracks.

Kyodo News reported no injuries have occurred. It said
the smoke plume was 3 miles high and lava flowed
about .6 miles from the fissure.

TV news reports Monday morning showed masked
residents sprinkling water and sweeping up the ash. The
city was mobilizing garbage trucks and water sprinklers
to clean up.

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Read more: http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2669537

[bananas]

1. Check Out These Wild Videos and Photos of a Japanese Volcano’s Massive Eruption | Video | TheBlaze.com

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/18/check-out-these-wild-videos-and-photos-of-a-japanese-volcanos-massive-eruption/

[ZRT2209]

7. the blaze?

[Tx4obama]

2. Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 and covered the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum

... and folks still have not learned to NOT build towns/cities close to volcanoes.

[Warpy]

4. That six miles is likely quite safe as long as

the volcano keeps erupting frequently. It's a bad idea to live in such places when the mountain has been quiet for a few decades or especially centuries. That's when such mountains have a nasty habit of blowing themselves apart, killing everybody within a wide area.

You can't beat that volcanic soil for growing a lot of crops, anyway.

[tofuandbeer]

3. Wow. After watching what I think was the 3rd video at your link...

it made me wonder about Valley Fever.
I don't know if it's world wide, but that sure was a lot of old dirt, etc being blown down upon those citizens.
Earth is still alive.

...BTW, some of the comments on USA Today's site are disturbing. :/

(sorry, this was in reply to your repost)

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. Why aren't we using geothermal???

[awoke_in_2003]

8. Geothermal makes BP Jesus cry. nt

[Godot51]

6. Sakurajima webcam

Below is a link to the Minami-Nippon Shimbun webcam which faces east from Kagoshima city. It all in Japanese but I'm sure you can click around and discover how to search the page.

For example on the right-hand side of the picture are the most recent archive date, 8/18, 8/17 and so on. If you click on the date you can view every photo taken (one per minute) on that day.

You can also click on the hour and the half hour below the picture and view the photos taken during that time period. On 8/18 you'd want to click on 16:30 to view the photos taken before, during and after the eruption.

http://373news.com/_sakucap/index.php

[heaven05]

9. well

it's coming.