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The Japanese government recently released a video created by artificial intelligence (AI) to illustrate what would happen if Mount Fuji were to erupt.

About Mount Fuji

• Mount Fuji, also called Fuji-san, is Japan’s tallest mountain, with a height of 3,776 meters.
• It is situated close to the Pacific coast in the Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures in the heart of the large island of Honshu.
• Tokyo, Japan’s capital, lies 60 miles (100 kilometers) to the east.
• It is an active stratovolcano, which last erupted from 1707 to 1708.
• It is part of the Fuji Volcanic Zone.
• The mountain is considered the world’s 7th highest mountain peak of an island and Asia’s 2nd highest volcano that is situated on an island.
• Mount Fuji is one of Japan’s “Three Holy Mountains” along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku. 
• The mountain is the major feature of Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park (1936), and it is at the centre of a UNESCO World Heritage site designated in 2013.
• The age of Fuji is disputed, but it seems to have formed during the past 2.6 million years on a base dating from up to 65 million years ago; the first eruptions and the first peaks probably occurred sometime after 700,000 years ago.
• The earliest precursors to Mount Fuji were Komitake (which forms the mountain’s north slope) and Ashitaka-yama (which sits southeast of the mountain).

Source: NDTV

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