Volcano Eruption

Volcanoes always erupt, sleep for a while and erupt again. No matter what, shooting missiles is not a good thing no matter who does it.

I hope something would 'ripple' to Trump in the US, or back to that odd leader of North Korea. Any chance?

This is possible, but even more possible is the fact that Kim Jung-un has caused a strong quake during one of his experiment. The quake has surely moved underwater plates and this could be the cause of the magma coming up from the center of the earth.

That makes perfect sense to me. And to think we were thinking of going to Japan after the wedding. We just didn't have the time or strength to plan it.

I too have been following this volcano and Sakurajima and Suwanosejima. I'm pretty sure that surface pressure from way off the east coast of Hokkaido in north Japan would not cause this volcano in southwest Japan to erupt. The magma chamber is 10-20 km below the crust. Sakurajima has been erupting daily, as it usually does, causing crustal deflation and expansion, which also will put pressure on the nearby magma chamber of Kirishima, a caldera which includes the peak Shinmoedake. The Philippines Plate is pressing northward faster than usual, which has caused a spate of deep earthquakes along the Nankai Trench and Izu Trench. The Nankai Trench presses up against the area where both Sakurajima and Shinmoedake are. So I'm pretty sure you can't blame a surface blast hundreds of kilometers away for this volcano. However, you can blame Kim for the earthquakes in North Korea that followed underground tests.