Mt. Usu crater photographed

SAPPORO, Japan - This photo, taken April 3 from a Kyodo News helicopter, shows a crater on the northwest side of Mt. Usu, which began erupting March 31 for the first time in 23 years. The crater is near an apartment building in the town of Abuta. On April 2, Hiromu Okada, a professor of volcanology at Hokkaido University, said 10 craters had formed on the volcano since the March 31 eruption.

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