Recent Volcanic Eruption 2024 Japan. No explosions were detected, though large. Japan’s sakurajima volcano, located on the island of kyushu, erupted on sunday, prompting evacuations in the region.

After the eruption on november 4, authorities elevated the aviation color code from orange to red, the highest on the scale. A volcano on sakurajima in kagoshima prefecture, southwestern japan, has erupted, with plumes rising to 5,000 meters above the summit crater for the first time since.