Sakurajima volcano erupted, sending an ash cloud 1,100 meters into the sky in Japan. Officials said the explosive eruption ...

The active Sakurajima stratovolcano in Kagoshima, Japan, erupted on Sunday, sending a huge plume of ash into the sky.

That meant the eruption likely took place in the Northern Hemisphere. The Greenland ice cores included ash layers and ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

the closest matches were in Japan and the Kuril Islands. Volcanic eruptions in 19th century Japan were well-documented, and there were no records of a large eruption in 1831. But colleagues who ...

The eruption was one of the largest of the 19th century, but the identity of the volcano responsible has long been unclear.

The eruption was so powerful it caused global temperatures to drop by around 1C and led to widespread crop failures ...

Deadly volcanic activity in Japan in recent years includes the 1993 eruption of Mount Unzen’s Fugendake and the 2014 eruption of Mount Ontakesan in central Japan. Both incidents killed dozens of ...

A massive eruption that took place ... collaboration with colleagues from Japan and Russia, who sent us samples collected from these remote volcanoes decades ago." He continued: "The moment ...

According to the analysis, the mystery volcano was Zavaritskii (also spelled Zavaritsky) on Simushir Island, part of the Kuril Islands archipelago, an area disputed by Russia and Japan. Before the ...

According to the analysis, the mystery volcano was Zavaritskii (also spelled Zavaritsky) on Simushir Island, part of the Kuril Islands archipelago, an area disputed by Russia and Japan. Before the ...

The 2009 eruption of Sarychev Peak Volcano, Kuril Islands ... The islands are today a disputed territory between Russia and Japan. "We analyzed the chemistry of the ice at a very high temporal ...