Aerial footage showed numerous pumice stones floating in waters off the Igaya and Ako districts on the western part of the small island on Nov. 23. The pumice was ejected from an underground ...

Pumice stones spewed from an undersea volcano ... 16 that its latest computer simulation indicated that the floating volcanic stones will first pass along the coasts of the Tokai and Kanto regions.

‘I wanted to investigate whether the magic islands could actually be organics floating on the surface, like pumice that can float on water here on Earth before finally sinking,’ said Dr Yu.