{"id":46519,"date":"2026-04-10T08:44:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=46519"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:44:54","slug":"explosive-kikai-volcano-refills-with-lava-sparking-eruption-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=46519","title":{"rendered":"Explosive Kikai volcano refills with lava, sparking eruption fears"},"content":{"rendered":"


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This situation is heating up.<\/p>\n

One of the world\u2019s most volatile volcanoes is silently refilling with molten rock, sparking fears that this caldera could be getting ready to unleash a torrent of lava, per a bombshell report in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe magma that is now present in the magma reservoir under the lava dome is likely newly injected magma,\u201d said co-author Seama Nobukazu, a geophysicist at Kobe University in Japan, in a recent statement.<\/a><\/p>\n

Dubbed the Kikai caldera, this mostly-underwater caldera<\/a> located south of Japan\u2019s Ryuku Islands last erupted 7,300 years ago, marking the largest volcanic eruption in the current geological epoch, the Holocene.<\/p>\n