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Scientist Warns Of Fuji Eruption Chaos
By North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy
Updated Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:32pm AEDT
| Mount Fuji | |
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 Mount Fuji at sunrise Lake Kawaguchi |
Photo Credit wikipedia
A Japanese scientist has warned Mount Fuji is due for a "big-scale explosive eruption" that could affect millions of people and cause billions of dollars worth of damage.
Last month a study found the magma chamber under the mountain has come under immense pressure, which could even trigger a volcanic eruption.
It said the added pressure could have been caused by last year's earthquake, which was followed a few days later by another large tremor directly underneath Fuji.
Professor Toshitsugu Fujii, the head of Japan's volcanic eruption prediction panel, says an eruption could cause chaos and carnage all the way to Tokyo.
"Mount Fuji has been resting for 300 years now, and this is abnormal," he told Saturday AM.
"It usually erupts in some form every 30 years.
"So the next eruption could be a big-scale explosive eruption."
Ever since last year's massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake off Japan's north-east, the country's meteorological agency has been keeping a closer eye on Mount Fuji.
No religious psychos with their copy and paste fetishes here yet?? Amazing!! Just business as usual on Planet Earth, home of the Mass Extinction event.