Japan: the new island appeared south of Tokyo grows visibly

 

A new island appeared there two days in a thousand kilometers south of Tokyo grows almost in view of? There, depending on the information and images provided by the Japanese authorities.

While she was circular with a diameter of 200 meters on Wednesday, the new island, which has no name yet, is shaped elongated potato 400 meters long by 200 wide, told AFP a spokesman Guard coasts.

On Friday, the presence of not one but two craters spewing very regular frequency of smoke and ash was confirmed by the coastguard who made new trails.

Projections height was 750 meters Friday Thursday and 900 meters against 600 the previous day, an indication that the volcanic activity that gave rise to the island is very intense, the source said. It is possible that the rash lasts a long time, experts said media.

According to the spokesman contacted by AFP Friday noon (Tokyo time), the Coast Guard conduct regular reconnaissance missions to check the status of the island located about 500 meters from Nishinoshima, a small uninhabited island Ogasawara archipelago.

“It is possible that magnification yet,” said Yoshihiko Tamura, the Japanese Centre for Oceanographic Research.

This is the first time in 40 years that island emerges in this area. However, this newborn is fragile and could disappear beneath the surface because of the waves.

The government has decided to wait to see if he was likely to remain before giving it a name.

Mapping service online Japanese Yahoo ! Japan, he has not waited more than a day to enter on his map of Japan and its already very many islands.

Terre earthquakes and volcanoes, four to five sudden appearances of islands there would occurred since the end of the Pacific War, including one in 1986, which disappeared within two months, and in September 1973 also in the vicinity of Nishinoshima. It has largely been dismantled by the waves but there is still a visible piece today.

Country of the Rising Sun, however, is not the prerogative of those surprising phenomena. An island has suddenly emerged two months ago in the Arabian Sea in favor of a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Pakistan, hundreds of miles away.

Japan: the new island appeared south of Tokyo grows visibly