| Date, Japan (CNN) - Hot rock, gas, ash and smoke were
blanketing the snowy countryside of Japan's northern island of Hokkaido
on Friday after the Mount Usu volcano erupted. Reports of injuries or damage
were not immediately available, and the magnitude of the eruption was not
immediately known. Smoke was reaching more than 2,000 meters into the atmosphere,
but there were no reports of lava flowing from the volcano. The eruption
- triggered when magma rose to the surface - occurred shortly after 1 pm
(0400h UTC), just hours after roads began cracking from growing fissures
on the mountain's flanks. "It is possible that widespread damage could
result from this eruption," chief Cabinet spokesman Mikio Aoki said, from
the government's emergency headquarters in Tokyo. Prime Minister Keizo
Obucci was at the headquarters monitoring the situation on Friday. Experts
monitoring the volcano's seismic activity had predicted the eruption, and
had evacuated more than 11'000 residents from homes at its base. Approximately
51'000 people live in Date and two other towns near the 2416-foot mountain,
475 miles north of Tokyo. Volcanic ash began to rain down on several towns
near the volcano shortly after the eruption. The area was enveloped by
the pungent smell of sulphur. After the eruption, Date city official Kazuki
Owada said the city had widened its evacuation order to include another
548 people. All 13'000 residents in Abuta village were told to evacuate.
"We are asking people to keep indoors," said Tsutomu Kikuchi, a town official
in nearby Toya village. A military helicopter detected Thursday that cracks
on the volcano's slopes had widened to 100 meters (330 feet). Mount Usu
is 732 meters (2402 feet) high.
Japan is one of the world's most eruption-prone countries, with 86 active
volcanoes, according to Japan's meteorological agency. The agency describes
an active volcano as one that has erupted at least once over the last 2000
years.
Mount Usu last erupted in 1978, killing two people and leveling nearly
200 homes. The trembling mountain gave enough advance warning then as well,
allowing authorities to move residents out and keep casualties to a minimum.
In 1991, several eruptions of the 1359-meter (4459-foot) Mount Unzen sent
avalanches of hot rocks sweeping through the outskirts of Shimabara, a
town in southern Japan, killing 43 people and leaving nearly 2300 homeless.
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For the public this disaster is yet another grill of nature's forces.
The Japanese security service however found out that this had to be another
terroristic action of -SOD-, a team of higly trained soldiers trying to
force the Japanese president to step down from his position and place their
own leader, the infamous Ed-Yon-Fat as the new president of Japan. It must
be said that the roots of -SOD- are in the old communistic Russia. They
hope that by taking one of the greatest economies in the world back to
communism more and more countries will have to follow. Having control af
Japan will give them the power to create economical embargo's with other
countries. Doing so will be a blow to all western countries but even more
to Japan itself. Herefor this threat needs to be stopped as soon as possible.
After informing with the NATO presidents the Japanese goverment decided
that =1FS= is the only force that will be able to neutralize this threat
and save democracy. |
