© Agence France-PresseJapan’s weather agency on 15 August raised their alert to its second-highest level after picking up increasing seismic activity around the volcano Sakurajima.
Det Japanske Meteorologiske Agentur øgede beredskabet for vulkanen Sakurajima fra 3 til 4, og rådede folk indenfor en radius af 3 kilometer fra krateret til at forberede sig på evakuering. Adskillige jordskælv blev detekteret i området lørdag, sagde agenturet på sin hjemmeside.
Kyushu Electric Power Co. begyndte at bringe reaktor nummer 1 online ved Sendai kraftværket den 11. august, det første atomanlæg til at genstarte i Japan under nye sikkerhedsregler er implimenteret som følge af Fukushima katastrofen i 2011.
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The area around the volcano had registered more than 800 tremors as of 2:15pm local time, according to the meteorological agency's website. Some 77 residents were advised to evacuate, and 24 had done so as of 3:50pm., the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said in a statement.
Kyushu Electric's Sendai plant is operating normally, a company spokeswoman said by phone Saturday, asking not to be named in accordance with the Fukuoka-based company's policy.
Volcanic rock and ash could cut off transport routes and prompt workers at Sendai to flee the nuclear site in the event of an eruption, putting operations at risk, engineering consultant John Large wrote in a February report commissioned by Greenpeace.
Japan lies on the so-called "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines surrounding the Pacific Basin, and it sits at the three-way meeting point of the North American, Eurasian and Philippine Sea tectonic plates.
Authorities ordered the complete evacuation of Kuchinoerabu island off Kyushu in May. More than 50 people, mostly hikers, were killed in an eruption at Mount Ontake in Nagano in central Japan last September.
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