Japanese volcano spews plumes of ash, people warned away
تحذيرات في اليابان مع ثوران بركان جبل “أسو”
Reuters
Tokyo: A volcano erupted in Japan on Wednesday, blasting ash several miles into the sky and prompting officials to warn against the threat of lava flows and falling rocks, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Smoke and ash are seen during an eruption on Mount Aso, a volcano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan October 20, 2021, in this still image obtained from video. Courtesy of Twitter @ NINJA250_NBYK / Social Media via REUTERS , a tourist destination on the main southern island of Kyushu, sent plumes of ash 3.5 km (2.2 miles) high when it erupted at about 11:43 a.m. (0243 GMT), the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
It raised the alert level for the volcano to 3 on a scale of 5, telling people not to approach, and warned of a risk of large falling rocks and pyroclastic flows within a radius of about 1 km (0.6 mile) around the mountain’s Nakadake crater.
The government is checking to determine the status of a number of climbers on the mountain at the time, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters, but added that there were no reports of casualties.
Television networks broadcast images of a dark cloud of ash looming over the volcano that swiftly obscured large swathes of the mountain.
Ash falls from the 1,592-metre (5,222-foot) mountain in the prefecture of Kumamoto are expected to shower nearby towns until late afternoon, the weather agency added.
Mount Aso had a small eruption in 2019, while Japan’s worst volcanic disaster in nearly 90 years killed 63 people on Mount Ontake in September 2014.
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ذكرت وسائل إعلام يابانية أن بركان جبل “أسو” في جنوب غرب البلاد ثار صباح يوم الأربعاء.
وذكرت هيئة الإذاعة اليابانية (إن إتش كيه) أن “الثوران تسبب في قذف سحب كثيفة من الرماد يصل ارتفاعها إلى 3500 متر فى الهواء”.
وحذرت هيئة الأرصاد الجوية فى البلاد سكان المنطقة المحيطة في كيوشو، الجزيرة الرئيسية في جنوب غرب اليابان، من الاقتراب من البركان الذي يبلغ ارتفاعه 1592 مترا تحت أي ظرف.
ولم ترد في البداية أي تقارير عن وقوع إصابات.
ويشار إلى أن اليابان موطن لأكثر من 100 من البراكين النشطة، منها 50 يتم رصدها باستمرار.
