Mt. Fuji (Fuji-san)

Location: 35 ° N, 43 ° E, on the Southern Honshu Island, near Tokyo.
Elevation: 12,380 feet (3776 meters)
Why: It's on a big 'ol fault line!

Japan's Fault Line Type: Composite Volcano because Fuji's material's seem to have piled up in alternate layers around the vent.
Past Eruptions/History

Mag	Year	Mag	Year
Unknown		1890
5.2	1707	3.6	520
2.3	1033	3.3	470
3.8	999	3.5	400
3.6	937	3.2	350
4.4	864	3.3	300
2.3	830	2.0	250
2.4	800	3.4	220
2.4	800	2.7	200
2.3	720	1.9	100
3.3	530	2.7	50

• See also Volcanoes: The Top Twenty

Future Predictions: As you can see, Fuji-san has not erupted in a while, and scientists don't feel that it will in a while.

ocated in Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, Japan, it is the main attraction of it's area. This volcano has not erupted since 1707, but it cannot be labeled dead for no volcano can be marked with that label, only dormant.

Source (http://www.yokogawa.co.jp/Measurement/Yamanashi-e/fuji-e.html)

It is the highest point in Japan, and the base of Mt. Fuji is about 50 km across. The crater at the summit is approximately 500 meters across and at the deepest point, 250 meters deep. In the winter, the volcano is covered with snow, but no signs of glaciatious activity are found because of the frequent lava-flows since the Ice Age. Instead of being a single cone, "Fuji Volcano" consists of 3 different volcanoes: Komitake, Ko-Fuji (Older Fuji) and the present Fuji (Younger Fuji).

Source (http://hakone.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/vrc/others/fuji.html)

Read this exerpt from a Japanese Web Site:

The highest mountain in Japan, Mt.Fuji is 3776-meter high. Mt.Fuji, which had been a sacred mountain, appeared the present form about 10,000 years ago. More than 200,000 people climb to the top of Mt.Fuji in a year. 30% of them is forginers. Now, Mt.fuji is a mountain which the people from the world can be friendly.

Now do you see what we had to go through????

Source (http://www.mt-fuji.co.jp/About/About_e.html)
See "Fuji-san" LIVE! ()
Images

• Mt. Fuji and Lake Reflection: (22.8 KB, 195x163, GIF)
• Majestic "Fuji Volcano": (27.0 KB, 394x311, JPG)
• Mt. Fuji and Lake Reflection 2: (13.9 KB, 394x273, JPG)
• Summit Crater of Mt. Fuji: (35.8 KB, 394x376, JPG)
• Mt. Fuji illustrated by a famous Ukiyoe painter, Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849): (35.9 KB, 394x259, JPG)
• Image from the Live Cam: (67.2 KB, 640x510, JPG)

External Links:

• See "Fuji-san" LIVE!:
• Guide to climbing Mt. Fuji:
• Another Mt. Fuji LIVE Camera:
  • Mt. Fuji LIVE Video: - requires RealPlayer 5.0
• Mt. Fuji Today: - review today's camera pictures.
• Yet another Mt. Fuji Camera:

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