A government-appointed panel, composed of volcanologists and disaster preparedness experts, has now issued a set of guidelines on how to handle such a crisis, particularly if the eruption leads to ...

An eruption on the scale of Mount Fuji's last eruption could go on for two weeks ... Fuji remains an active volcano with immense power contained within. As in 1707, an earthquake off the coast of the ...

An eruption on the scale of Mount Fuji's last eruption could go on for ... with immense power contained within. As in 1707, an earthquake off the coast of the country - lying on over 2,000 active ...

The Japanese government has issued a contingency plan for a potential Mount Fuji eruption, to help the public prepare for the ...

a major Mount Fuji eruption would produce about 490 million cubic meters of ash, about 10 times the amount of debris that resulted from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

The study estimates that a major eruption of Mount Fuji could release up to 490 million cubic metres of ash – about 10 times more debris than the 2011 earthquake and tsunami produced.

The government said that the Japan Meteorological Agency had not raised the warning level even though earthquake levels were slightly elevated, because the warning level was based on additional data ...

Japanese authorities have issued guidance on how the public should respond if the famous Mount Fuji volcano, near Tokyo, were to erupt. Experts recommend sheltering at home and maintaining a two ...