The Sakurajima volcano in Kagoshima Prefecture is due to erupt within 30 years, according to a pioneering report from the University of Bristol and the Sakurajima Volcano Research Center, the BBC reported on 14 September.
The finding came after the team used a new method of calculating and modelling the size of a volcano’s reservoir. Currently, magma is being amassed faster than it can be expelled through the volcano’s frequent small eruptions.
The volcano’s last deadly eruption came in 1914 and killed 58 people.