South Korean media broke out: Japan's Mt. Fuji spit fire mouth increased sixfold, at any time facing the possibility of another eruption. For this news, some people are happy and some are worried, and the majority of netizens have said that Japan is really finished?
Since the eruption of the Tonga volcano, the roaring waves have swept across most of the world, causing many countries to suffer. Although Japan is 8,000 kilometers away, it is still hit by tsunamis, and more than 200,000 people are expected to be affected.
Not only that the eruption of the Tonga volcano seems to be just an appetizer, and under its influence, Mt. Fuji, which has been sleeping for three hundred years, has also begun to stir, with a 6-fold increase in the number of fire outlets than usual, and coupled with the earthquake that occurred only last month, there are signs everywhere that Mt. Fuji is about to awaken.
Some experts have predicted that once Mt. Fuji erupts, it will deal a devastating blow to the capital, Tokyo, so where should Japan go?
10,000 years ago, the Eurasian Plate and the Pacific Plate underwent a violent crustal movement, and under the violent collision of the Izu Peninsula and the Honshu Peninsula, Mt. Fuji, the sacred mountain in the hearts of the Japanese people, was born. Mt. Fuji is a typical stratum-like volcano with 18 historically recorded eruptions. The most recent occurred in 1707, when Mt. Fuji erupted trillions of tons of volcanic ash, making the Edo (now Tokyo) castle 120 kilometers away accumulate a thickness of 0.85 centimeters. For a month after the eruption, japan was shrouded in volcanic ash and saw no sunlight.
According to experts, according to the current geothermal activity, once Mount Fuji awakens, it is very likely to be a medium-level and large-scale eruption, probably between VEI5 and VEI6, similar to the Tonga volcano. Under such a large-scale eruption, a large amount of magma will erupt from the crater and sweep tens of kilometers in all directions, causing serious forest fires, and the volcanic ash will point the finger directly at Tokyo, posing a serious threat to the local population.
The eruption of a volcano depends on three conditions, there is magma underground and there are passages in the mountains, which is enough power to promote the magma to surge. Coincidentally, Mt. Fuji has just met these three conditions. As an active volcano, it has not erupted for nearly three hundred years, which has always made Japanese experts uneasy. Know that volcanoes take a while to accumulate energy after each eruption. The longer the process of accumulating energy, the greater the scale of the next time. Fortunately, volcanoes, unlike earthquakes, often have omens on the eve of eruptions, which allows Japan to prepare in advance once a signal of an eruption is detected. But the disasters and ripple effects of large volcanic eruptions don't seem to be able to withstand Japan, a country born on the seismic belt.
After the eruption of the Tonga volcano, many experts have predicted that 2022 will be a summerless year. After all, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 led to a drop in the global average temperature. The eruption of any large volcano will have a huge impact on the global climate, and if there is another Mt. Fuji this year, the consequences are unimaginable.
Relatively speaking, if Mt. Fuji is an overflow eruption, then there are fewer areas of impact, but once it is explosive, the air and weather in addition to Tokyo or Osaka, including the mainland, may be affected. However, for now, the possibility of successive eruptions of Mt. Fuji and Tonga volcanoes is unlikely, after all, Japan's local testing agencies have not issued an early warning. Even if there is a large-scale eruption, the direction of the wind from west to east determines that it will not cause much trouble to the mainland. As for Japan, which is on the verge of an outbreak, it can only be blessed!