Mount Ontake in central Japan erupted shortly before noon
local time Saturday, spewing large white plumes of gas and ash high into the
sky and blanketing the surrounding area in ash. The bodies of at least 31
people believed to be dead have reportedly been discovered near the summit of
an erupting volcano in Japan. The search for survivors started almost immediately
but the search for victims was abandoned on Monday because of fears of toxic
gases. Japan is one of the world's most seismically active nations so
it the fact that they didn’t get any signs before the eruption so they didn’t
evacuate people until it exploded. Also,
the eruption appears to have resulted from a steam-driven explosion of a kind
that is especially hard to forecast, said Toshitsugu Fujii, a volcano expert.
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