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 ...

All residents in the zone from Mount Fuji to Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, just west of Tokyo, should evacuate in the ...

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 ...

This estimate is about 10 times the amount of debris generated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated ... The economic loss from a Mount Fuji eruption is estimated to be up to 2.5 trillion ...

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 ...

Mount Fuji last erupted in 1707. In the worst-case scenario, a massive eruption of Japan's highest peak could spew 30 centimeters of ash (nearly 12 inches) or more over Tokyo, about 100 kilometers ...