Japan issued an alert Friday (September 17th) after a volcano erupted in the southwest of the country, which threw large boulders nearly a kilometer from the crater, Kyodo news agency reported.
According to Kyodo, no injuries were immediately reported after the eruption of Mount Otake, on an island in Kagoshima prefecture.
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The Japan Meteorological Agency set the alert level at three - on a scale of five, where five triggers evacuation - to restrict access to the area around the volcano after the eruption at around 2 a.m. (1700 GMT Thursday).
Multiple initial "explosions" took place in the crater Thursday, the agency said, quoted by Kyodo, which warned that large boulders thrown by the volcano could land within a radius of two kilometers.
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A similar eruption took place at Mount Otake in March, for which the meteorological agency had also issued a level 3 alert. much of the world's earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are recorded.
