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Powerful eruptions at a volcano in southern Japan spews ash thousands of metres into the air, as authorities warn locals not to approach the mountain. IMAGES
Typhoon Khanun, packing maximum sustained wind speeds of 162 kilometres an hour as it crossed the Pacific Ocean, is expected to start battering Japan's Okinawa region late Tuesday. Naha's port was pummelled by rain and strong winds. IMAGES
Karo, Mar 3 (EFE/EPA).- The Sinabung volcano, one of Indonesia’s most active, on Wednesday continue to send a cloud of ash into sky. Mount Sinabung erupted on Tuesday, emitting a huge column of ash and smoke that reached 5,000 meters in height. Intermittent eruptions of the Sinabung, which measures 2,460 meters, has shown uninterrupted activity since 2013, causing 16 deaths in 2014 and seven in 2016, although they have never exceeded Grade 3 (on a scale of eight) on the Volcanic Explosivity Index.The Indonesian archipelago sits within the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of ??great seismic activity with 127 active volcanoes and which experiences thousands of tremors a year, most of them of small magnitude. (Camera: DEDI SINUHAJI).SHOT LIST: MOUNT SINABUNG SPEWS VOLCANIC ASH IN THE AFTERMATH OF ERUPTIONS, IN NORTH SUMATRA, INDONESIA .
Japan's Mount Aso erupts for the first time in 36 years causing ash to fall on neighbouring Aso City. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Costa Rica's massive Turriabla volcano spews incandescent rocks, ash high into the night sky. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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