Volcanic island eats another off Japan
By Brad Lendon, CNN
updated 10:32 AM EDT, Mon April 7, 2014

(CNN) -- One Japanese island has swallowed another.
NASA's Earth Observatory reports that Niijima island, a volcano which broke through the ocean's surface last November, has now merged with a nearby island that formed from a volcano which last erupted 40 years ago.
Niijima emerged about 500 meters (550 yards) from the older Nishinoshima in November. Now, according to observations taken at the end of March, they are one, measuring about a kilometer (six-tenths of a mile) across. And at its highest point, the new island is 60 meters (almost 200 feet) above sea level. That's triple the highest point observed in December, according to the NASA report.
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