Horrible today: Live Footage New Explosion Underwater Volcano in Japan, Ash Covers Sun in Ogasawara

The underwater volcanoes that gave birth to a new island off the Japanese island of Iwo Jima has erupted again, sending huge amounts of ash and smoke into the sky in footage released by the Japanese Coast Guard. The volcanoes, located off the coast of Japan's Iwo Jima island in the southern part of the Izu-Ogasawara arc, previously erupted on October 21.. Activity increased in the following days, and by October 30, explosions were recorded daily. a few minutes. Each explosion threw rocks and ash into an ever-larger pile 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) off the island's coast, eventually forming a volcanic outcrop nicknamed Niijima, which means "new island" in Japanese..