#How will the outbreak of Mount Fuji affect Japan##富士山爆发 #
Text/Junjian
According to the Guangming Network quoted by the "Japan Times" and other foreign media news, the Japanese side has been strictly preventing the possible outbreak of Mt. Fuji, the Japanese Police Agency has been "fully prepared" for this purpose, and is ready to purchase equipment such as dust masks for the police, and now Japan is worried that the outbreak of Mt. Fuji may directly impact the Tokyo metropolitan area.
(Eruption of Sakurajima Volcano in Japan at the beginning of the year)
Rumors of a possible outbreak on Mt. Fuji have been around for a long time, but now even the Japanese National Police Agency is on alert, suggesting that there may be some phenomenon that has raised such fears. Originally an active volcano, Mt. Fuji last erupted in 1707, when it was said to have been accompanied by a strong earthquake. For hundreds of years afterward, Mt. Fuji remained "dormant," but it was not an extinct volcano. Since 2020, Japan has been preparing for the eruption of Mt. Fuji. Japan feared that if Mt. Fuji erupted, a huge amount of ash would rush out of the surface, and if Mt. Fuji had erupted in the same direction as in 1707, the ash would have hit Tokyo, with unimaginable losses and disasters.
(Mt. Fuji)
Mt. Fuji is not far from Tokyo, about 80 kilometers away, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Area is very large, after development has exceeded 13,000 square kilometers, in this area, gathered more than 37 million people, and there is a lot of infrastructure, such as power grids deployed here. If Mt. Fuji erupts and volcanic ash hits Tokyo, it could paralyze urban traffic and damage the power grid. According to the results of the Japanese experts, if there is an eruption of Mt. Fuji at 11 a.m. one day in the future, it will only take 2 hours for the Tokyo metropolitan area to fall into darkness.
(Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Japan)
Moreover, volcanic eruptions belong to crustal activity, and Japan itself is a country completely on the seismic belt, so Japan often has various earthquakes of all sizes, and large earthquakes will affect the state of Mt. Fuji, and the eruption of Mt. Fuji may also trigger volcanic earthquake phenomena, which is a test for Japan. Japan has learned countless times about the power of earthquakes, and the 2011 "3.11 Japan Earthquake" directly led to tsunami warnings and triggered the Fukushima nuclear power plant leakage, which is still endangering the living environment of all mankind to this day.
(Earthquake in Japan)
Ironically, Japan fears that it will suffer from factors such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, but in terms of nuclear wastewater discharges from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, it intends to pass the problem on to the world. For some time now, Japan has been pushing forward plans to drain nuclear sewage into the sea in an attempt to "settle once and for all." But once millions of tons of nuclear sewage are discharged into the Pacific Ocean, the world needs to bear the corresponding risks. In this regard, Japan has chosen a perfunctory attitude, which has also aroused strong dissatisfaction and solemn concerns from its neighbors.
(Japan's attempt to drain nuclear sewage into the sea)
Facts show that Japan has shown great cunning in dealing with accidents caused by earthquakes. As a country that is often affected by natural disasters, Japan should know the importance of protecting the ecological environment, but Japan does not, which is also a place where Japan has been criticized by the international community.