I had a fun time last night speaking to the Licking County Rock and Mineral Club - lots of talk about volcanoes and we spent some time talking about our newest best friend, Kirishima. The impressively-erupting Japanese volcano (see below) has finally made it into the english-speaking media but not in the way I expected. No, many of the articles I saw were referring to the eruption as from the "James Bond" volcano, which at first elicited a "huh?" from me but then realized that yes, indeed, Shimnoe-dake cone was a model for the evil lair of the villain from "You Only Live Twice". Leave it to the news to think that a tie-in to the Bond film is the interesting angle for this event. (Sigh … well double sigh for the articles that call it "smoke" coming out of the vent.)
Webcam capture of the Kirishima eruption on January ...
