Mt Fuji is Japan’s tallest mountain, at 3,776 meters above sea level with over 300,000 people climb to the top each year, but did you know Mt Fuji is still an active volcano, and it’s overdue for its next eruption.
Mt Fuji last erupted just over 300 years ago, on December 16th 1707. Known as the Hoei eruption, it lasted 16 days and ejected a massive 800 million cubic meters of rock, ash and hot poisonous gases into the atmosphere and over Tokyo. That’s a cube almost 1 km square in size, or over 1 and half times the height of the Tokyo Skytree. Avalanches of volcanic ash rolled down the side of Mt Fuji at speeds of up to 700 km/h destroying villages and farmlands in its path causing many deaths.
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