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Is Mount Fuji the highest point in Japan? Bonus points if you can say how tall approximently. (Fun fact 7)
What is Yes, it is 12,388 feet tall.
What is the name and type of volcano?
What is Mount Fuji, stratovolcano.
What happened after the earthquake that killed 5000 people. (other than the eruption) (Fun Fact 5)
What is there was a tsunami that caused 5000 deaths.
How did it erupt?(Fun Fact 1)
What is an 8.6 magnitude earthquake opened the top of the volcano like a corn and the volcano exploded.
How many cubic meters of ash was released in it's most destructive eruption? (Fun fact 2)
What is 800 million cubic meters of ash. There was no lava flows to go with it though.
What does it rank on the Volcanic Explosivity Index (Fun fact 3)
What is it's most destructive eruption ranks as a VEI 5.
What is the lat, long, or city and country it is in.
What is 35.3606 degrees North, 138.7274 degrees East. It is in central Honshu, Japan.
When is it's next predicted eruption?
What is they predict it will erupt in a couple hundred years. Even though it has not erupted in a long time, they still consider it an active volcano. In 2001 there was a rise in volcanic activity.
If it erupted now approximently how many people would have to evacuate? (Fun fact 6)
What is about 565,000 people.
It is considered one of Japan's "Three Holy Mountains," Name one of the two other volcanoes considered Holy. (Fun fact 4)
What is Mt. Tateyama or Mt. Hakusan.
When was its most recent eruption, also its most destructive eruption.
What is December 16,1707. When it erupted, and earthquake caused the opening of the volcano to open, and 40 days after the volcano erupted ejecting tons of tephra onto Japan. Tephra blanketed the city of Edo.
What happened to the people?
What is they evacuated very quickly. It took about five days for everyone to evacuate in near vacinity. They came up with an evacuation route for everyone so that people can evacuate more quickly if Mount Fuji erupts again. There were no deaths from the eruption because it happened so long after the earthquake that triggered it. They test the evacuation plan every year.
What is ash blanketed the surrounding areas including the vegetation. About 20,000 people starved because the vegetation died. Mud/ask traveled through the crops and destroyed them. The mud was caused from a dam breaking and water mixing with the ash. Many farmers did not have a farm left after the eruption.
What happened to the climate?
What is tephra was released into the atmosphere. The temperature dropped almost ten degrees. In the night, the temperature rose about 5 degrees. Some crops in the area that didn't die from the mud/water died from lack of sunlight. The average temperature in Japan at this time is 75 degrees, it got down to 65 degrees when the volcano erupted.