{"id":24113,"date":"2025-08-29T08:27:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24113"},"modified":"2025-08-30T10:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:07:04","slug":"mount-fuji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mount-fuji\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Fuji"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Mount Fuji Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Japanese government recently released a video created by artificial intelligence (AI) to illustrate what would happen if Mount Fuji were to erupt.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Mount Fuji<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mount Fuji, also called <\/span><b>Fuji-san<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is <\/span><b>Japan\u2019s tallest mountain,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a height of 3,776 meters.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is situated <\/span><b>close to the Pacific coast<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures <\/span><b>in the heart of the large island of Honshu.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Tokyo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Japan\u2019s capital, lies 60 miles (<\/span><b>100 kilometers) to the east.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>active stratovolcano,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which <\/span><b>last erupted from 1707<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to 1708.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is part of the <\/span><b>Fuji Volcanic Zone.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mountain is considered the <\/span><b>world\u2019s 7<\/b><b>th<\/b><b> highest mountain peak of an island <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Asia\u2019s 2nd highest volcano<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that is situated <\/span><b>on an island.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mount Fuji is <\/span><b>one of Japan\u2019s \u201cThree Holy Mountains\u201d<\/b> <b>along with Mount Tate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Mount Haku.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mountain is the <\/span><b>major feature of Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park (1936),<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and it is at the centre of a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/unesco-world-heritage-sites-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>UNESCO World Heritage site<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> designated in 2013.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">first peaks probably occurred sometime after 700,000 years ago. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">The<b style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> earliest precursors to Mount Fuji<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Komitake <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(which forms the mountain\u2019s north slope) and <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Ashitaka-yama<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (which sits southeast of the mountain).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/offbeat\/japanese-government-shares-ai-video-to-show-what-would-happen-if-mount-fuji-erupts-9171819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NDTV<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Fuji, also called Fuji-san, is Japan&#8217;s tallest mountain, with a height of 3,776 meters. 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