Lava lamp forecast

[yanpa]

Quakes added to eruption risk on Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji's magma chamber came under so much pressure from the Great East Japan Earthquake and one of its aftershocks last year that it could very well erupt, researchers said Thursday.

However, the jump in pressure is not the only factor that could cause the volcano to blow, and no signs of a pending eruption have been detected, the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention said.

Mount Fuji most recently erupted in 1707 but under the same circumstances. At the time, the rise in pressure caused by the preceding quake, which hit right before the eruption, was weaker than that caused by last year's quakes, the group said.

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At least the ash will be good for the garden.

[Taro Toporific]

Waking up this morning without my glasses on, I read the title of this as "LAVA LAMP FOREST," which sounded to me like a cool art project!

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[yanpa]

A series of pictures I took when I was living in an apartment where I could (on clear days) see the Big F (click to enlarge):

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[Coligny]

A series of pictures I took when I was living in an apartment where I could (on clear days) see the Big F (click to enlarge):

Was it from the loo ? Because i'd certainly be shitting mahself if I could take pictures of a smoking volcano from my house...

[Taro Toporific]

A series of pictures I took when I was living in an apartment where I could (on clear days) see the Big F (click to enlarge):

Was it from the loo ? Because i'd certainly be shitting mahself if I could take pictures of a smoking volcano from my house...

Japan finds another gap in its disaster readiness - Mount Fuji
Reuters | September 15, 2012
TOKYO ---When Toshitsugu Fujii became head of a Japanese task force on disaster response at Mount Fuji, he was confronted with a startling oversight. Japan had no plan in place to deal with a disaster in which an earthquake sparks a volcanic eruption at the country's most famous landmark...
...Fujii said a tremor "greatly increases" the chance of an eruption in a country that has experienced nearly 12,000 earthquakes since the magnitude 9.0 tremor that led to disaster on March 11, 2011.
"They always forget about the volcanoes," he said. "The government has never included Mt. Fuji in its earthquake scenarios."
...Fujita said .."The government has to prepare for a logistical nightmare," he said. "They've said they are going to do something but they haven't got their act together so far."
Part of the problem is the fractured nature of Japanese bureaucracy, with a division between the teams planning for earthquakes and eruptions.
"We don't include an eruption at Mt. Fuji in our earthquake scenarios because we simply don't know whether a quake would cause one or not," a Cabinet office spokesman told Reuters.
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Pressure in Mount Fuji is now higher than last eruption, warn experts ...
WIRED -- 6 Sep 2012 –The pressure in Mount Fuji's magma chamber is now higher than it was in 1707, the last time the nearly 4000-metre-high Japanese volcano erupted ...more...

ReadyTokyo: Mt Fuji Predicted Eruption Data
...This is in a pdf published by the Mt Fuji Sabo office whose work is to predicted and attempt to reduce the impact of the next eruption.
http://www.cbr.mlit.go.jp/fujisabo/moun ... utline.pdf
There is a great deal of info on MT Fuji on the MT Fuji Sabo website http://www.cbr.mlit.go.jp/fujisabo/
The website also includes CGI graphics of previous Mt Fuji Eruptions
http://www.cbr.mlit.go.jp/fujisabo/db/k ... 6move.html
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