News Excerpt:

An undersea volcano off the coast of Japan's Ogasawara Islands, a far-flung archipelago also known as the Bonin Islands, has given birth to a tiny new island.

About the new unnamed volcano:

• It is located about 1 kilometer off the southern coast of Iwo Jima (Japan).
• Currently, it is 100 meters in diameter and 20 meters high above the sea.
• The newly formed island started as a "vertical jet" of solidified magma that shot high above the waves.
• After that, the eruption was sustained by relatively continuous bursts.

Earlier emergence of islands due to volcanic eruption:

• In 2013, an eruption at Nishinoshima in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo led to the formation of a new island.
• In 2013, a small island surfaced from the seabed after a massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Pakistan.
• In 2015, a new island was formed as a result of a month-long eruption of a submarine volcano off the coast of Tonga.