Mount Fuji, also called Fuji-san, is Japan’s tallest mountain, with a height of 3,776 meters. Read more about Mount Fuji, Location, Eruptions, Area, Elevation, Latest News.
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The Japanese government recently released a video created by artificial intelligence (AI) to illustrate what would happen if Mount Fuji were to erupt.
About Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji, also called Fuji-san, is Japan’s tallest mountain, with a height of 3,776 meters.
It is situated close to the Pacific coast in the Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures in the heart of the large island of Honshu.
Tokyo, Japan’s capital, lies 60 miles (100 kilometers) to the east.
It is an active stratovolcano, which last erupted from 1707 to 1708.
It is part of the Fuji Volcanic Zone.
The mountain is considered the world’s 7th highest mountain peak of an island and Asia’s 2nd highest volcano that is situated on an island.
Mount Fuji is one of Japan’s “Three Holy Mountains” along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku.
The mountain is the major feature of Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park (1936), and it is at the centre of a UNESCO World Heritage site designated in 2013.
The age of Fuji is disputed, but it seems to have formed during the past 2.6 million years on a base dating from up to 65 million years ago; the first eruptions and the first peaks probably occurred sometime after 700,000 years ago.
The earliest precursors to Mount Fuji were Komitake (which forms the mountain’s north slope) and Ashitaka-yama (which sits southeast of the mountain).
Source: NDTV
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