Mt. Fujiyama rumbling, last rumbled in 1707

Japan that has not managed to recover after the first blow of natural disasters ( earthquakes and tsunamis) is risking to be overtaken by a new misery resulting from these disasters. Japanese Seismic Service has reported of a threat of its symbol, Fujiyama volcano’s eruption. The reasons for these assessments are recent 5-6 magnitude earthquakes on the volcano. The last time the volcano erupted was in 1707 when a new crater appeared on it and Tokyo streets ( named do at the time) were covered with 15 sm ash. Eruption of the national symbol will completely " smash" Japan which has just 2 days to stave off nuclear explosion at APS Fukushima affected by tsunami. So far Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) has increased the danger degree at wrecking Automatic power station Fukushima -1 till the 5th level out of 7 possible ones. International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) already considers wreckage at Japanese APS Fukushima-Daiichi the most serious one
since Chernobyl catastrophe of 1986. Japanese government has already asked the USA for technical assistance to push aside wreckage on APS built under General Electric technology. At present it has been officially affirmed that another 6.200 people have become victims of Japanese earthquake on 11 March. Nearly 10.200 people are considered missing.

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this is from an email alert from rsoe.com

Thankie for the info.

Enough indeed!

It's very upsetting for, um, some.

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Niiice pic btw! Hey where did the moon pic go!?

The Mighty Supermoon is SO powerful that it's affecting the EARTH'S TECTONICS...but only on the (relatively) tiny island of Japan. Somehow all of that yanking and jerking that the SOOOOOPERmoon is doing to the Earth's crust is ONLY manifesting on one tiny little part of it. You'd think that a force so powerful that it can cause earthquakes from 238855 miles away might affect the WHOLE Earth and not just one small part of it...but you'd be WRONG, bwahahahaha! The Supermoon is FUCKING NINJA like that.

Happened in 1707.

Ok maybe we really should consider evacuating and relocating people to safer locations?

Not in Japan, anyhow. We don't seem able to remember what happened 50 years ago, much less over 300 years ago. We live today and ignore the lessons of the past most of the time. If Mt. Fuji erupts, it erupts. There are no real preparations that can be made for that. Those who build and live under a volcano assume some pretty large risks.

We just might pull this off.


Yeah, I know...I can dream, can't I? Poor, poor Japan! :cry:

We couldn't evacuate New Orleans with plenty of notice of impending doom from a hurricane. All it would have taken was enough transport vehicles on an interstate system with a short trip of 50 to 75 miles.

Japan has a far larger population and is an island.

I understand your sentiment and how it is placed. The proposition of such is not easily pulled off and our track record of evacuation is not that grand in recent history. Hell a 4 inch snowfall in DC area this year created 12 hour drive times for people just trying to get home from work. Some were still trying to get home when the morning rush was starting.

Please make this not be true, please make this not be true, please make this not be true.....






(small sob)

It's a volcano fed by the subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Eurasian and Philippine Plates. The subduction causes heating under the plate, which creates new magma pools that can feed new and existing volcanoes. Fuji hasn't erupted for three hundred years, but that doesn't mean that an eruption isn't possible, and these quakes under it may indicate a reawakening. They may also indicate nothing at all.

People were very surprised when Mt. Lassen in California erupted violently between 1914 and 1917. We've forgotten that now, and the area has increased dramatically in population since then. It could erupt again, but nobody pays much attention, other than a few vulcanologists. Then there's Mt. St. Helens, which surprised most people with its dramatic eruption not so long ago.

So, yes, Mt. Fuji could erupt. In fact it almost certainly will erupt again...sometime. It shouldn't come as a surprise. Volcanic regions don't just go inactive, unless the subduction zone stops, and that won't happen.

Science is good. It helps us understand what was once beyond understanding. The pity is that we ignore it and are surprised when things happen.

time, there's pretty much an earthquake all the time there. Earthquakes at 6.0 and under don't even get covered in the news, except locally. They're so frequent that even the Japanese pretty much ignore them. That area is one of the most seismically active zones on the planet. That's because of the triple-junction of the Eurasian, Philippine and Pacific plates. The Pacific plate is moving generally westward, and diving under the other two plates. The actual junction is just offshore from Japan and forms one of the deep ocean trenches in the Pacific.

Subduction zones like that one are always very active, generating a constant stream of earthquakes and, occasionally, a huge quake, like the one that recently occurred. So, a 6.0 in the vicinity of Mt. Fuji isn't all that unusual, really. It may indicate some activity under the volcano, or it may not. It's difficult to say. However, Mt. Fuji is certainly capable of erupting - no question about that. It's very difficult to predict far in advance when that might happen, though, but it will be signaled by a increase in the number of shallower earthquakes centered around the volcano, and will probably be predicted quite some time before it actually erupts. Like other major volcanoes, it's under constant monitoring, so there will be information well in advance of its eruption. Vulcanology has advanced a great deal, and Mt. Fuji, like other potentially deadly volcanoes, is heavily instrumented and monitored.

Even so, with Tokyo's enormous population, even good advance warning will probably be of little use. It's too large to be evacuated, since there's really no place for the 30+ million people living in that metro area to go.

now I remember why I remember Fuji being mentioned...


Friday's quake is the strongest earthquake in recorded history to hit Japan, according to U.S. Geologic Survey records. The previous record was an 8.6-magnitude earthquake that struck near the Chubu Region near southwestern Honshu on October 28, 1707, that may have killed 5,000 people, CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said.

That quake generated a 33-foot (10-meter) tsunami wave, and some scientists believe the quake may have triggered the eruption of Mount Fuji 49 days later..

I mentioned it a couple of times in different threads and nobody even listened

Bow down, heathens

What's really spooky is NatGeo just did a show on 'When Earth Erupts' - they told all about Fuji

Your topic about this on March 15:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x651867

And reply 15 in this topic:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x656709


Found those via a Google search for

baclava "democratic underground" "mt fuji"



I hope Mt. Fuji won't erupt, but what that CNN article said about the last eruption being preceded by a similar quake and tsunami is alarming.

"I'm placing my money on Mt Fuji blowing up"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x656709


Yeah - kinda crude - but that's how us prophets are sometimes.

Call CNN

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Radioactive volcanic lava, my next perdiction



I have spoken

Could that massive quake have affected the volcano?

"The previous record was an 8.6-magnitude earthquake that struck near the Chubu Region near southwestern Honshu on October 28, 1707, that may have killed 5,000 people, CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said.

That quake generated a 33-foot (10-meter) tsunami wave, and some scientists believe the quake may have triggered the eruption of Mount Fuji 49 days later..."

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The last eruption, centuries ago, was preceded by an earthquake of similar magnitude and a tsunami.

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