New volcanic island keeps getting bigger

[yuiyoshida]

TOKYO —

Famously crowded Japan is getting a bit more space as a newly-formed volcanic island just keeps on growing.

New footage of the remote Nishinoshima, some 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo, shows a volcano erupting up to six times a minute, spewing huge volumes of magma—and scientists say there is plenty more still to come.

A tiny islet emerged in November 2013 right next to the original Nishinoshima, when molten rock cooled and began to poke its head just above the water.

That speck of land grew as the volcano kept going, and soon engulfed its once larger neighbor.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/new-volcano-island-keeps-getting-bigger

[Art_from_Ark]

1. All right!

Japan gets another half square mile or so of uninhabitable land!

[yuiyoshida]

2. Give it a few years to Cook

it will be ready then, and you will have some great land there to stick a town on!

[Art_from_Ark]

3. At 600 miles away from the mainland,

something tells me that there won't be swarm of colonists rushing to settle there, even after the lava has cooled down.