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Japan has new island after underwater volcanic eruption

By Lily Larsen
Published November 9, 2023 9:02pm ET
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Japan has new island after underwater volcanic eruption
Japan has a new island after an undersea volcano erupted on Oct. 21 more than 740 miles south of Tokyo, but experts say the new land mass might not last. Like many Japanese islands, this unnamed land mass in the Bonin Islands was formed by a phreatomagmatic eruption, an explosion that occurs when magma erupts […]

Japan has a new island after an undersea volcano erupted on Oct. 21 more than 740 miles south of Tokyo, but experts say the new land mass might not last.

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