Baby Volcanic Island Niijima Swallows Up Its Neighbor!

Meera Dolasia
Mon, 07 Apr 2014 10:26:25 -0700

When the eruption of a volcano on November 21st, 2013, resulted in a brand new island about a thousand kilometers south of Japan's capital Tokyo, experts were a little hesitant to declare that a permanent new landmass had been born. That's because these kind of volcanic islands have a tendency to disappear almost as rapidly, as they appear.