Mount Ontake erupts in Japan

[importaku]

Damn that's some scary stuff, seems like many people were trapped on the side of the volcano when it went off.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/27/us-japan-volcano-idUSKCN0HM04V20140927

Some people recorded footage as they were on the volcano at the time, i would be ****ting bricks if that was me.

[noobish hat]

I love that major world events can now be viewed as if through a very tall and narrow door. Thanks, smart phones!

[importaku]

I'm sure as they were fleeing an erupting volcano that they were thinking of using the best filming position to capture said events.

[noobish hat]

You're right, they were probably preoccupied with figuring out how to hold the phone without touching any of one side of it. This would have been superpimp in widescreen, though!

[kryss]

If it's not in 60fps...let's just not.

Scary stuff. I'm glad Takao didn't erupt when I was hiking on it in 2009.
Funny, they said that Ontake erupted last in 2007 but I really don't remember...

[noobish hat]

I was living in Japan in 2007, I'm sure I'd have heard about it if it had. And I didn't think Takao is volcano.

[Asura]

Some people recorded footage as they were on the volcano at the time, i would be ****ting bricks if that was me.

I lived very near a volcano whilst over there, and people do get very blase about them. I remember the first time I saw activity, I was bricking it, but the Japanese around me barely seemed to notice.

[kryss]

I was living in Japan in 2007, I'm sure I'd have heard about it if it had. And I didn't think Takao is volcano.

I just think of every mountain in Japan as a volcano by default.

[Asura]

I just think of every mountain in Japan as a volcano by default.

Isn't that literally true? I mean even if they're solid rock now, they were a volcano at some point? I thought Japan formed as a volcanic archipelago; like if you could go back 20 million years, it'd be like Hawaii.

[bash]

I'm disappointed there's no footage of Gojira to go along with this . . . .

[kryss]

All volcanoes are due to Space Godzilla.

Isn't that literally true? I mean even if they're solid rock now, they were a volcano at some point? I thought Japan formed as a volcanic archipelago; like if you could go back 20 million years, it'd be like Hawaii.

That's pretty much what I was thinking but couldn't remember anything to back it up.

[importaku]

I suppose if you have all those amazing natural thermal hotsprings, erupting volcanos is the price you sometimes have to pay. I have no idea how i'd react if all of a sudden the mountain you were living next to decided to wake up & you had to abandon everything.

[Yakumo]

Can't say I saw anything on TV so I guess it wasn't that big. I agree on the phone view though But that's because I turn it horizontal without even thinking

[importaku]

31 deaths apparently so far, from those pics it doesn't look that minor to me.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-29399306

[Yakumo]

Well, it just goes to show how much TV I watch then. Still, nothing about it on this mornings news. Not that I was paying attention anyway.