Environment

Underwater Volcano Erupts In Japan

by Sputnic | February 4, 2010 at 10:31 am

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Amazing video. Shot recently off the Japanese coast.

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at 13:38 on February 4th, 2010

Great video.

Maybe a new island?

Sputnic

at 14:25 on February 4th, 2010

Perhaps in a hundred years or so 158. Thanks for comment.

158

at 14:28 on February 4th, 2010

That happened in Iceland about 40 years ago.

Sputnic

at 14:39 on February 4th, 2010

Yeah, how big is it now ? Geologists are often wrong about the time frame of these events. They often seem to happen quicker than they predict. Like the event that happened in Somalia in one year, that would supposedly take 1 million years to form

Sputnic

at 02:22 on February 22nd, 2010

This now makes no sense, but it did before !

katfish

at 22:35 on February 21st, 2010

wow! This may be a silly question, but was this eruption anticipated? Japan may need that extra land one of these days.

I second Rosies comment....although we just had an earthquake in Northern Illinois recently.

Sputnic

at 00:38 on February 22nd, 2010

Not sure Katfish, think Japan could use some land now. Although with global warming the ice halves of a lot of their islands will perhaps be habitable soon.