Volcano in southwestern Japan erupts for 1st time in 6 years

Plumes of smoke billow from Mt. Shinmoe, a volcano on Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu, on Oct. 11, 2017, as it erupts for the first time in six years. The previous major eruption of the volcano, which is part of the Kirishima mountain range, occurred in September 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA000117342

Registered date
2017/10/11 12:56:44

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source
2017 Kyodo News

Media size
3040 × 1948 pixel

Resolution
240 dpi

Deployment size
523.57(KB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

Volcanic island Nishinoshima in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane on Oct. 30, 2023, shows Nishinoshima Island in the Pacific, an uninhabited islet in the Ogasawara chain of islands, some 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo. Volcanic activities have continued in Nishinoshima since an undersea volcanic eruption in 2013.

Volcanic island Nishinoshima in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane on Oct. 30, 2023, shows smoke coming out of a crater on Nishinoshima Island in the Pacific, an uninhabited islet in the Ogasawara chain of islands, some 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo. Volcanic activities have continued in Nishinoshima since an undersea volcanic eruption in 2013.

Mt. Fuji voluntary admission fee

File photo taken in September 2014 shows a hiker paying a voluntary admission fee before climbing Mt. Fuji from the fifth station on the mountain's Yoshida Trail in Fujiyoshida in Yamanashi Prefecture, eastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Families remember loved ones killed in Mt. Ontake eruption

KISO, Japan, July 25 Kyodo - Bereaved families of those killed in the 2014 eruption at Mt. Ontake, central Japan, hike up the volcano to view its top on July 24, 2016 as they remembered their loved ones among the victims. The eruption killed 58 people, while five others remain unaccounted for.

Mt. Fuji gets season's 1st snowcap

TOKYO, Oct. 11 Kyodo - Mt. Fuji, a World Cultural Heritage site which stands between Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures, is covered with a thin layer of snow for the first time this season on Oct. 11, 2015. The first snowcap on the 3,776-meter mountain is 11 days later than average but five days earlier than last year.

Black woodpecker spotted feeding in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, June 18 Kyodo - A black woodpecker, designated as a natural treasure in Japan, is spotted feeding its chicks in a forest in the Taisetsu mountain range in central Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, on June 18, 2015.

Volcanic alert raised for Mt. Hakone

HAKONE, Japan, May 6 Kyodo - Tourists leave a station of the Hakone Ropeway in the town of Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture on May 6, 2015, after its operation was suspended due to intensifying volcanic activity in the Owakudani hot spring district of Mt. Hakone, a popular tourist spot southwest of Tokyo. Japanese authorities raised the volcanic alert for the mountain the same day, anticipating a possible small steam eruption.

1 month after Mt. Ontake eruption

OTAKI, Japan - A woman wipes her tears in the village of Otaki, Nagano Prefecture, in front of flowers to mourn for 57 climbers killed in the eruption of Mt. Ontake in central Japan on Oct. 27, 2014, one month after the 3,067-meter volcano erupted. Six people remain missing on the mountain following the eruption.

1 month after Mt. Ontake eruption

NAGANO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mt. Ontake, with white smokes rising from several points, in central Japan on Oct. 27, 2014, one month after the 3,067-meter volcano erupted, killing 57 climbers. Six people remain missing on the mountain following the eruption.