Residents of a southern city shoveled ash from their streets Thursday after a nearby volcano erupted twice, coating the area and sending debris as far as 140 miles away.

In Kagoshima, a city of 520,000 people on Japan’s southernmost main island of Kyushu, highways were shut down while trucks worked to clear ash almost an inch deep. People also brushed away soot from their homes, cars and gardens.

No damages or injuries were reported.

The eruptions late Wednesday and again Thursday on 3,664-foot Mount Sakurajima were the largest in three years in terms of the volume of smoke and ash spewed, the Meteorological Agency said.