isaac__ford Entertaining weather south of New Zealand
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A couple years ago - a brand new island popped out of the ocean off the coast of Japan. That new island - called Nishinoshima, engulfed a smaller nearby island and is now 12x the size it used to be. The eruptions have stopped and the island now is at least temporarily stable, so life has begun occupying it. This short video documents a group of Japanese Scientists as they visit this nearly unexplored landscape.
The Japanese Coast Guard took this video of the ongoing eruption of the Niijima volcano, which formed off the coast of an island called Nishino-Shima last December, kept growing, and completely consumed the previous smaller island.
Meet Niijima In early December we brought you news of the birth of a new island in the Izu-Bonin arc south of Japan, created as a volcano stuck its head above the surface of the Pacific (https://www.facebook.com/TheEarthStory/posts/604053649655683) The Japanese Coast Guard has visited the island and provided some lovely baby pictures for the world. Niijima is the new island, a small volcano creeping above the surface near the larger volcanic island Nishino-shima nearby. It’s currently about 25 meters tall and 56,000 square meters (13.8 acres) in area. The eruption is ongoing at Niijima, and as of now it’s probably big enough to survive the pounding from the Pacific for a few years. The bigger it gets, the more likely its survival becomes. -JBB Image credits: http://www.asahi.com/articles/photo/AS20131130001671.html http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82607