What was the destruction Mt Fuji (Japan) did on its last eruption?
17 eruptions of New Fuji have been recorded since 781. Many of the eruptions occurred in the Heian era, with 12 eruptions between 800 and 1083. Sometimes inactive periods between eruptions lasted for hundreds of years, as in the period between 1083 and 1511, when no eruptions were recorded for over 400 years. At present, there have been no eruptions since the Hoei eruption in 1707, around 300 years ago. The Hōei eruption of Mount Fuji occurred in 1707 . Although it brought no lava flow, the Hoei eruption released a tremendous amount of volcanic ash, which spread over vast areas around the volcano, reaching even Edo almost 100 km from Mount Fuji. The volume of ash was estimated at about 800,000,000 m³. The eruption occurred in the south-west side of Mt.Fuji, and formed three new volcanic vents, named 1st, 2nd and 3rd Hōei vents. Mt.Fuji has not erupted since then. However, in the year following the Hōei eruption, the Sakawa river flooded as a secondary disaster because of the sediment o
