Mt. Fuji ready to blow? GLP Experts please chime in.

We need the tremor data!!! Does anybody know a homepage with the Mount Fuji tremor data???

Anyone read Japanese?:

[link to live-fuji.jp]

Fuji will not erupt.

wiki,
history of eruptions

History
Mount Fuji with a Shinkansen and Sakura blossoms in the foreground

Mount Fuji is an attractive volcanic cone and a frequent subject of Japanese art. Among the most renowned works are Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji and his One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji. The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.

It is thought that the first ascent was in 663 by an anonymous monk. The summit has been thought of as sacred since ancient times and was forbidden to women until the Meiji Era. Ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present day town of Gotemba. The shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo held yabusame in the area in the early Kamakura period.

The first ascent by a foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1860, from the foot of the mountain to the top in eight hours and three hours for the descent.[13]:427 Alcock's brief narrative in The Capital of the Tycoon was the first widely disseminated description of the mountain in the West.[13]:421-7 Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1867.[14] Photographer Felix Beato climbed Mount Fuji in that same year.[15]

Today, Mount Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain-climbing.[16][17] In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr's Chautauqua lectures about his several ascents of Mount Fuji—1913, 1919, and 1923—were widely known in America.[18] A well-known Japanese saying suggests that anybody would be a fool not to climb Mount Fuji once—but a fool to do so twice.[19][20] It remains a popular meme in Japanese culture, including making numerous movie appearances,[21] inspiring the Infiniti logo,[22] and even appearing in medicine with the Mount Fuji sign.[23][24]

In September 2004, the manned weather station at the summit was closed after 72 years in operation. Observers monitored radar sweeps that detected typhoons and heavy rains. The station, which was the highest in Japan at 3,780 metres (12,400 ft), was replaced by a fully-automated meteorological system.[25] As of 2006, the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the United States Marine Corps continue to operate military bases near Mount Fuji.
[edit] Geography

oops, wrong history, here's the erruptions

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

1707-1708 last time Fuji erupted.

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Ahhh... if I were in Tokyo... I'd be leaving... now.


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Note the twin towers.





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I especially liked the expert's opinion of "It won't erupt" Some of my immediate thoughts were of Fuji after the quake, I also would be leaving immediately if I lived in Tokyo. It has been about 300 years since the last Fuji eruption with an average gap of 30 years between eruptions over the last 2000ish years. I guess there are no real-time readings available to the public on the net and I doubt any actual experts of Volcanoes or of Fuji are going to read this, so we shall have to wait and see. My slightly educated guess is that yes it will erupt very soon due to the enormous amount of pressure caused by the earthquake and other events such as the rare stage of lunar cycle that the moon is currently in. Also to look at past evidence as some of you others have pointed out, the last time Fuji erupted was just after a HUGE amount of seismic activity.

The 1707 Hōei earthquake, which occurred at 14:00 local time on October 28, 1707, was the largest in Japanese history[1] until the 2011 Sendai earthquake[2] surpassed it. It caused moderate to severe damage throughout southwestern Honshu, Shikoku and southeastern Kyūshū.[3] The earthquake and the resulting destructive tsunami, caused more than 5,000 casualties.[4] This event ruptured all of the segments of the Nankai megathrust simultaneously, the only earthquake known to have done this, with an estimated magnitude of 8.6 ML. It may also have triggered the last eruption of Mount Fuji some 49 days later.[5]

That Tokyo picture is so extremely photoshopped. That picture looks very much like Shinjuku, but the Hakone Mountains and Mt. Fuji don't loom over dramatically like that. I live very close to Mt. Fuji, so the idea that it's going to blow is so real to me. I looked at the mountain this morning, covered in snow and there are no changes to make me think it'll blow by a set date. HOWEVER, the thought that the March 14th earthquake with the epicenter in Fujinomiya happened... terrifies me. That was a 6 point earthquake RIGHT NEXT TO AND UNDER the mountain. People in this area are thinking it's wives' tales that Fuji would blow, but I'm nervous. I was told by family and friends that if there's rumbling noises (like Mt St. Helen's), I should get the hell out of there, no questions asked. I think I will follow this advice.