Sakurajima eruption

Sakurajima eruption

Photo taken early on Aug. 9, 2020, from an unmanned fixed-point camera in Tarumizu, Kagoshima Prefecture, shows an eruption on Mt. Sakurajima in the southwestern Japan prefecture. It was the 197th explosive eruption this year at the volcano's Minamidake summit crater.

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  • 2020/8/09 17:47:21
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