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  • Enormous Underwater Volcanic Eruption Creates Waves of Pumice Off Japan

    10/29/2021 2:49:49 AM PDT · by blueplum · 18 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 28 October 2021 | HANNAH OSBORNE
    The biggest underwater volcanic eruption Japan has seen since the end of WWII has left shores covered in pumice stone. In one video, stones are seen covering the waves, while images show fishing ports inundated with volcanic rock. The volcano, Fukutoku-Okanoba, is situated on the Ogasawara island chain, about 800 miles from Tokyo. It sits about 25 meters below the surface of the sea.... ...Huge quantities of pumice stone ejected from the volcano have now started washing up along coastlines in the Okinawa Prefecture....