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Miyakejima islanders temporarily return home

MIYAKEJIMA, Japan - Residents of the volcanic island of Miyakejima, south of Tokyo, wearing gas masks, are briefed by an official on April 2 after landing on the island to make temporary visits to their homes. Some 200 of the island's 3,850 residents, all forced to evacuate their homes in September 2000 by volcanic eruptions, returned to the island to repair their homes and collect belongings.

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(1)Miyakejima evacuees make brief return to island

MIYAKEJIMA, Japan - One of evacuated Miyakejima islanders, who were allowed to return to the island July 12 for the first time in 10 months, watches rocks and mudflows that severely damaged a room in his house.

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Miyakejima roads cut by mudslides

MIYAKEJIMA, Japan - The circular road on Miyakejima Island is seen severed and heavily damaged by mudslides caused by heavy rain on the volcanic island Sept. 6. A member of a Ground Self-Defense Force contingent sent to the island said they had to pull back because their four-wheel-drive vehicle got stuck in the mud.

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Miyake residents start evacuation

MIYAKEJIMA, Japan - Some 280 of the remaining residents on Miyakejima, an active volcanic island some 200 kilometers south of Tokyo, leave the island on Sept. 2 in accordance with an evacuation order issued Sept. 1 by officials of the village of Miyake due to fears of massive pyroclastic flows. The 284 people boarded ships for Tokyo to become the first batch of islanders to leave after village head Ko Hasegawa ordered the evacuation of the estimated 800 remaining residents within three days from Sept. 2.

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Eruption of Mt. Oyama forces Miyakejima residents to evacuates

MIYAKEJIMA, Japan - Following the Aug. 18 eruption of Mt. Oyama on Miyakejima Island south of Tokyo, islanders take shelter at a gymnasium in Miyake Junior High School in the Izu district Aug. 19. The 813-meter volcano belched smoke as high as 8,000 meters. Experts said the Aug. 18 eruption was the largest in the past six weeks.

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Evacuation order partially lifted for Miyakejima residents

MIYAKEJIMA, Japan - A girl wearing a mask to prevent inhalation of volcanic ash returns home from a shelter on Miyakejima Island, south of Tokyo, on July 17 after the partial lifting of an evacuation order by authorities. The authorities allowed 86 islanders to return home three days after they were told to evacuate following July 14's eruption of Mt. Oyama, a 813-meter volcano at the center of Miyakejima.

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Miyakejima residents return home

MIYAKEJIMA, Japan - An aged woman thanks a policewoman (L) as she leaves shelter at a school gymnasium June 29 after an evacuation order was lifted for some 1,100 residents living in the Tsubota district in the eastern part of Miyakejima Island.

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Landslides found on western part of Miyakejima

MIYAKEJIMA, Japan - The photo, taken from a Kyodo News helicopter, shows landslides on a coastal area in the western part of Miyakejima on June 27. Experts said underwater volcanic activity may have begun off Miyakejima, a small island 180 kilometers south of Tokyo.

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Miyakejima islanders evacuated to local high school

MIYAKEJIMA, Japan - Many people on Miyakejima island, 180 kilometers south of Tokyo, spent the night of June 26 at a nearby high school after the Meteorological Agency warned of an imminent volcanic eruption. About 2,000 quakes jolted the island and heat was detected on the western part of the summit of Mt. Oyama.

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Signs indicating underwater eruption observed off Miyakejima

MIYAKEJIMA, Japan - A change in the color of the sea is detected early on June 27 about 1 kilometer west of Miyakejima, indicating that a volcanic eruption may have begun under the sea. There appears to be no eruption occurring on land, with magma activity apparently having shifted from Mt. Oyama's western foot to the sea west of the small island, located 180 kilometers south of Tokyo, an expert said.