Mount Fuji Research Paper

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Mount Fuji is a volcanic mountain situated in Japan, south-west of Tokyo on the largest island, Honshu. It’s longitude is 35.3606° and its latitude is 138.7278°. It is over 3.7 kilometers tall, making it the highest volcano in Japan. The last confirmed eruption of Mount Fuji, was on the 15th of December 1707. It is still an active volcano. In 2014 there was speculation that it would erupt because of the pressure from the 2011 earthquake which reached 9.0 on the Richter scale.

Mount Fuji was not the first volcano to stand where it currently is, the first volcano, mount Komitake, originally became active around about 700,000 years ago and occasionally erupted. Until another mountain next to it named ko Fuji also became active. Over that millennium

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