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Mt Fuji Volcano - John Seach
Honshu, Japan
35.35 N, 138.73 E
summit elevation 3776 m
Stratovolcano
Mt Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan. The mountain has a base diameter of 50 km. Fuji Volcano consists of three volcanoes: Komitake, Ko-Fuji (Older Fuji Volcano) and the present Fuji (Younger Fuji Volcano). A summit crater is 500 m across and 250 m deep.
More than 200,000 people climb to the top of the mountain every year. There was an increase in seismic activity under Mt Fuji in 2000-01. A new eruption of Mount Fuji may be explosive like the 1707 eruption. A 2004 Japanese government simulation determined that in the worst-case scenario, a major eruption of Fuji would cause ¥2.5 trillion in economic damage.
Mt Fuji is privately owned above the eighth station. Fujisan Hongu Sengentaisha, a Shizuoka-based Shinto shrine, was granted the land in 1609.
The Philippine Tectonic Plate, the Eurasian Plate (or the Amurian Plate), and the North American (or Okhotsk Plate) meet at Mount Fuji.
Mt Fuji Volcano Eruptions
1707-08, 1700, 1627?, 1560, 1511, 1427?, 1083, 1032, 1017?, 999?, 993?, 952?, 937?, 932, 870, 864-65, 830, 826, 802, 800, 781.