{"id":17444,"date":"2016-02-05T13:31:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T18:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17444"},"modified":"2016-02-05T13:32:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T18:32:57","slug":"japans-sakurajima-volcano-erupts-some-50km-from-nuclear-plant-met-agency-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17444","title":{"rendered":"Japan’s Sakurajima volcano erupts some 50km from nuclear plant – Met Agency (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japan’s Sakurajima volcano erupts some 50km from nuclear plant – Met Agency (VIDEO)<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Volcanic lightning is seen at an eruption of Mount Sakurajima, in this photo taken from Tarumizu city, Kagoshima prefecture, southwestern Japan, February 5, 2016. \u00a9 Kyodo \/ Reuters<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Japan\u2019s Sakurajima volcano, situated about 50km from the Sendai nuclear station, has erupted with the country’s meteorological agency issuing an orange warning not to approach it.<\/div>\n
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Residents in the area were evacuated in August last year after an alert for the volcano was raised to its second highest level. When Sakurajima erupted in 1914, it was Japan\u2019s most powerful of the 20th century. The lava flows filled the strait separating the island from the mainland, turning the area into a peninsula.<\/p>\n

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