sadly to say, it might have spilled down the mountain , and I missed it, cant see in now, too much smoke, but a glow is where the bottom was, lighting up the smoke, darn it

sorry, that was "Bigger",

When tired, I start to hit all over the place on the keys hahaha amusing at times if I catch it before someone is offended

Have a wonderful day (Night)

It was fantastic , and feel honored to have the links, though like today, I cant get in to watch them because the bandwidth is very poor.   It was fun to watch those huge bolders being shot into the air and slowly fall back, meaning they were shot to a great height, and then watch as they mimicked firey comets coming back down , after I realized the actual size as bigget than most homes, it really struck home to me.

have a greatday

You were lucky to see the explosive eruption at night. Living nearby the volcano I am asleep for most of the night time eruptions. Of course, it is really a matter of lucky timing. I am hoping to go right beside one of those cameras one night soon and make some photos of night eruptions. ... If there are any when I go. There are usually photographers out every night. Mostly retired or self employed. I have to wait for good weather and a day off. 

it has calmed now, it was for a while spectaculer, thanks for the links Wayne

some of those bolders were bigger than a house, using the perspective of how far the cam is away from the mountain, as they were at least a 1/8 inch or larger on my screen, wow, they streaked into the sky looking like meteorites coming down

I signed in at 6.10 so could have been going on for a while

Wayne, at 6.12 it started blowing bolders (Hot)  out of the crater on cam 9

Wayne, if you are around, check out number 9, wow

I forgot I was using my own designations, ooops

what I meanht was all but cam 7 is showing activity in the respective lava pools

Wayne, all but number 4 is showing lava flow

Wayne, some fireworks on the nite cams right now, enjoy

If I could find them, I would start watching train cams, now they are interesting and have an immediatsy to them as well, like remote model watching.  THere is  a strange despiration about volcano sciences, especially field work. The Chinese have it right in this work, they accept any solid research and immediate prediction as that saves lives, the folks who are inconvienced over a false alarm are not upset, nor become complacent about it. Too many have lost their lives by being lazy as , ahem , a few Western Countries are, meaning mine, in my country likely one would be sued for giving a dire prediction that was not on time, such foolisness will eventually kill many thousands here, or perhaps more, as a Massive eruption and large Quake combined will take out services and L-necessities (Life Needs)  No Secure Scientist would be willing to lay his or her carreer on the line to issue a immediate emminant prediction, as their fellows would crusify them.

As I said, Train watching is fun and safe

I got into some commercials on the link, one for a phone (Wood) and a wonderful video of a nut cracking crow, amusing

THe link is fun as well, hahahahahaha

I really dont know what my facination for volcanoes is, however the net does provide, And    a few friendly folk along the way

be well and stay safe

@Kyle. I had to look it up but there are 108 active volcanoes in Japan. 

http://www.dailyonigiri.com/2010/04/active-volcanoes-in-japan/

The most active currently are all near where I am. My house is about 20km from Sakurajima and 60km from Shinmoedake (which erupted in a big way this time last year. You can see it if you type "Kirishima" into the Opentopia search. One couldn't get near the Sakurajima crater but Shinmoedake crater is on a hiking path I've walked and very close to a highway. It is in Kirishima National Park. Of course you can't hike near it now;). Aso volcano is north of me and you can drive right up to the crater mouth and look down into it. That is unless it starts venting gases. 

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/volcano/ 

Wayne, how many active Volcanoes are there in Japan?

Wayne,,,oh, hahaha I did check the reload speed for the cam when I was looking at what ever was in the clouds over the mountain, it occured to me as well that something was amiss, very easy to do , miss the cam refreash rate

Amusing , and I have made that error before