42+ Mount Fuji Eruption 2014 Pictures. They ran models for possible eruptions at 92 locations on the mountain. The eruption is said to have continued for two weeks, blanketing areas as far away as what is now tokyo with several centimeters of ash.
Scientists have studied that the mountain indicates a high potential for the volcanic eruption.
It is dormat now, but scientists consider it active. The current volcano, which erupted about ten thousand years ago, covers two older volcanos, komitake fuji and old fuji. On december 16, 1707, scientists recorded the last confirmed eruption of mount fuji, japan's highest point. This period is distinguished by explosive eruptions which discharge large volumes of scoria (porous rock), volcanic.