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LadyTea User ID: 22188579 France 09/06/2012 01:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If that eruption is anything like the 1707 one then the property we own in Chiba is gonna get a covering of 2 to 4cm of ash. Just great, and we are still worried if the building is radioactive. Of course the biggest worry in all of this though is our remaining family there. Quoting: TerrorByte Air Traffic would come to a complete stop at Narita, Haneda and other Japanese airports. All incoming airplanes would have to be rerouted. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 23285054 Germany 09/06/2012 01:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I wonder if this has any connection to the quake of 3/11. I know it's been 1 1/2 years, but still...they've been having regular 4's and 5's. Quoting: Boudicca Tectonic shifts triggered by last year's huge 9.0 magnitude undersea quake have left the chamber under 16 times the minimum pressure at which an eruption can occur, researchers said. Researchers at the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention studied the tectonic movements caused by the tsunami-triggering quake on March 11, 2011 and a magnitude 6.4 quake that rocked central Japan four days later, Kyodo News reported.... [link to phys.org] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 4727082 United States 09/06/2012 01:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I wonder if this has any connection to the quake of 3/11. I know it's been 1 1/2 years, but still...they've been having regular 4's and 5's. Quoting: Boudicca Tectonic shifts triggered by last year's huge 9.0 magnitude undersea quake have left the chamber under 16 times the minimum pressure at which an eruption can occur, researchers said. Researchers at the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention studied the tectonic movements caused by the tsunami-triggering quake on March 11, 2011 and a magnitude 6.4 quake that rocked central Japan four days later, Kyodo News reported.... [link to phys.org] What a little research will do! Thanks |
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Pat Mccrotch User ID: 2369524 United States 09/06/2012 01:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Pressure in Mount Fuji is now higher than last eruption, warn experts Quoting: IwantToBelieve76 :mountFujisep6: The pressure in Mount Fuji's magma chamber is now higher than it was in 1707, the last time the nearly 4,000-metre-high Japanese volcano erupted, causing volcanologists to speculate that a disaster is imminent. The new readings, taken by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, reveal that the pressure is at 1.6 megapascals, nearly 16 times the 0.1 megapascals it takes to trigger an eruption. This, lead volcanologist on the case Eisuke Fujita told Kyodo News, is "not a small figure". Researchers have speculated for some time that the volcano, located on Honshu Island 100km southwest of Tokyo, is overdue an eruption. In 2000 and 2001 a series of low-frequency earthquakes were recorded beneath the volcano, leading to widespread predictions of an imminent blow.... ReadMore: [link to www.wired.co.uk] Wonder how they knew what the pressure of Mt. fuji was in 1707... Pat Mccrotch |
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Royslist User ID: 20582107 United States 09/06/2012 03:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thread: Experts Predict Mt Fuji will erupt "Soon" sucks for japan If the most important knowledge was shared openly with everyone it would surely be Vulgarized. KNOW ENOUGH TO KNOW TO BE NOWHERE BUT NOW-HERE "42" Fill your blood with Gold and let go of Black Metal |
davejp User ID: 23044549 United Kingdom 09/06/2012 07:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Bump Have a look at the cams, cloud formation or steam/smoke? [link to www.goandroam.com] Last Edited by davejp on 09/06/2012 07:09 PM |
taniatarn User ID: 21658555 New Zealand 09/06/2012 07:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | As I understand it a Volcano becomes a 'super volcano' if it is capable of producing a volcanic eruption with an ejecta volume greater than 1,000 km3 (240 cu mi)...so that would depend on what is underneath the volcano and the pressure involved in the eruption...obviously the higher the pressure the bigger the eruption...especially if there is a huge magma chamber underneath... Interested observer of all things interesting! Please note : Where appropriate for posted images/ graphs I acknowledge the New Zealand GeoNet project and its sponsors EQC, GNS Science and LINZ, for providing data/images used in my study and analyses of Volcanic and Earthquake information in New Zealand. |
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taniatarn User ID: 21658555 New Zealand 09/08/2012 08:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Apparently Japan is not ready for an eruption..they are in the midst of a festival to try and quell the fires beneath the mountain... and there is concern of losing tourists dollars if they panic people.. "The government should prepare for a logistical nightmare. It's not done anything on that yet. They'll have to know how many millions of people, including tourists, they'll need to evacuate from around Fuji. They keep on saying they'll do something about that, but so far the country's failed to get it's act together." That doesn't stop thousands of tourists from ascending the slopes every day during the summer months. Last year about 40 million visited the Fuji area. But that means the government has a narrow path to walk when it comes to preparation for an eruption. Do too much, and the panic could send this tourist cash elsewhere. Do too little, and the cost could be human. [link to uk.news.yahoo.com] Interested observer of all things interesting! Please note : Where appropriate for posted images/ graphs I acknowledge the New Zealand GeoNet project and its sponsors EQC, GNS Science and LINZ, for providing data/images used in my study and analyses of Volcanic and Earthquake information in New Zealand. |
Stevonga90 User ID: 23015886 United States 09/08/2012 09:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Apparently Japan is not ready for an eruption..they are in the midst of a festival to try and quell the fires beneath the mountain... and there is concern of losing tourists dollars if they panic people.. "The government should prepare for a logistical nightmare. It's not done anything on that yet. They'll have to know how many millions of people, including tourists, they'll need to evacuate from around Fuji. They keep on saying they'll do something about that, but so far the country's failed to get it's act together." That doesn't stop thousands of tourists from ascending the slopes every day during the summer months. Last year about 40 million visited the Fuji area. But that means the government has a narrow path to walk when it comes to preparation for an eruption. Do too much, and the panic could send this tourist cash elsewhere. Do too little, and the cost could be human. [link to uk.news.yahoo.com] But the festival will most likely not have any effect. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 23451689 Slovenia 09/09/2012 09:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | After the earthquake in March 2011, a professor from Ryukyu University warned in May that a larger eruption of Fuji should be expected within 3 years, based on the observations that: - Steam and gases emissions from the crater have increased. - Water eruptions were observed in the area. - Huge pit craters had appeared on the flank of the mountain, from which gases escape. - Above all, a 34 km long fault was discoverd recently, which extends right under the volcano. This fault could even cause the collapse of the whole mountain if there is a large-enough movement along the fault. Such a collapse would cause devastating pyroclastic flows, debris avalanches and extensive lahars, and be a disaster of unprecedented scale. The latest measurements show surely that the huge tectonic movements of 2011 have increased pressure on the magma chamber, but additional parameters such as deformation of the volcano and earthquakes are needed to make a reliable forecast for a new eruption. Worrying in this context, however, is that the last eruption in 1707 was most likely influenced, if not triggered by an earthquake earlier."It's possible for Mount Fuji to erupt even several years after the March 2011 earthquake, therefore we need to be careful about the development," a spokesman for the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention said. A report from 2004 estimated the probably damage of a new eruption to around 2 billion USD. Recent studies assume an increased risk of earthquakes in the Tokai, Tonankai and Nankai regions, which lie at the edge of the Nankai Trough, where a larger quake is expected. In the worst case, a series of simultaneous severe quakes could cause up to 323,000 deaths and additionally trigger an eruption of Mount Fuji, the gloomy conclusion of the latest report reads. hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VA-20120909-36499-JPN |