21+ Mount Fuji Eruption 2017 PNG. Mount fuji (actually, two volcanoes known as old fuji and young fuji) has erupted for more than 100,000 years—and is still an active volcano today. The plinian eruption started on may 2nd and ending on may 3rd.
Mount fuji is a japanese icon, and at 3,776 meters the country's tallest peak.
It touched on the need for local governments and infrastructure companies to compile disaster. Volcanologists have warned that if mount fuji were to erupt tokyo could be crippled by a layer of ash so thick that traffic and trains would be brought to a standstill japan's sacred peak has been quiet ever since, but scientists say that a future eruption is inevitable and could come with little warning. Mount fuji is on standby for the next eruption, said hiroki kamata, a professor of volcanology at kyoto university. Japan's iconic mount fuji could paralyse tokyo with ash if it erupted, choking roads and halting water supplies, according to a government disaster planning study it last erupted in 1707, but while it has not shown any signs of life in recent decades a potential eruption now could shower more than 10.