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A volcano successful confederate Japan erupted aboriginal connected Sunday (November 16, 2025), sending a plume of ash and fume into the entity and prompting a informing implicit ashfall.
Sakurajima, 1 of Japan's astir progressive volcanoes, erupted earlier dawn, sending ash and fume up to 4,400 metres (14,400 feet) into the sky, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
No harm has been reported, an authoritative successful Kagoshima prefecture, wherever the volcano is located, told AFP.
But the upwind bureau forecast ashfall successful portion of Kagoshima and neighbouring Miyazaki prefecture, arsenic the eruption continued respective times.
"In areas wherever a mean magnitude of ashfall is expected, delight instrumentality measures to support yourself from ash, specified arsenic utilizing umbrellas oregon masks, and marque definite to thrust slowly," the bureau said.
The bureau has kept its alert level unchanged astatine 3 connected a standard of five, which restricts entree to the mountain.
