@ai6yr Science fiction in action.
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Ioto is actually one of the bumps on Godzilla's head and he's getting up to go mushroom foraging.
... mushroom cloud foraging, that is
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TBQF, this is continuation/resumption of a previous/ongoing underwater eruption.
Eventually the new islet will likely connect itself to Iwo Jima proper.
It's been semi-active since ??, and has been on the top-10 hazards list for 11 years now.
It's peculiar in the sense that most volcanic islands lose their magmatic-hotspot which goes on to make more islands in a chain/archipelago, but this one has 4+ centuries of recorded activity. (It does have sibling isles.)
@AlliFlowers That whole island is moving and growing and shifting constantly... it's amazing humans are on there, really.