Mt Fuji is due to blow!

[Eastoff]

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/06/mount-fuji

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.

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[jlprk]

Fucking Bush. Crooked election of 2000.

 

[BlazerWookee]

How the hell do they know what the pressure level was in a Japanese volcano in 1707?

 

[BrianFromWA]

that article seems to be from last September...?

 

[ABM]

How the hell do they know what the pressure level was in a Japanese volcano in 1707?

They compared against Mt. Shirane's readings, which had been kept since 1684.

 

[Eastoff]

How the hell do they know what the pressure level was in a Japanese volcano in 1707?

I have no clue!

 

[Eastoff]

that article seems to be from last September...?

oh no, it's almost been a year since the article! :MARIS61: We're definitely in danger now.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Cause it needed the money....oh!!!!!

 

[jlprk]

How did Mr. Shirane measure the pressure? Bunions?

 

[Eastoff]

Cause it needed the money....oh!!!!!

Mt Fuji, not Mrs. HCP.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Mt Fuji, not Mrs. HCP.

Oh...

 

[MarAzul]

How the hell do they know what the pressure level was in a Japanese volcano in 1707?

Thank you. You saved me from typing the same.

 

[Nikolokolus]

How the hell do they know what the pressure level was in a Japanese volcano in 1707?

You can measure the amount of compression an object (erupted rock) was under based on distance from its ejection point. Pretty simple physics equation.

 

[jlprk]

How could they tell that far back? Do they have a 2000-year-old book with all the answers?

 

[THE HCP]

How the hell do they know what the pressure level was in a Japanese volcano in 1707?

The fucking internet bro!

 

[MarAzul]

You can measure the amount of compression an object (erupted rock) was under based on distance from its ejection point. Pretty simple physics equation.

umm, yeah that works for a bullet out of gun barrel. It is commonly known a ballistics.

But we have no gun barrel here nor anything quite as directional. Seems like swag is closer to the mark.

 

[jlprk]

Maybe Reptilicus lived in the volcano before becoming a movie star, and he kept good records. That's why he needs no agent.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Mt Fuji, not Mrs. HCP.

HAHAHAHA!!!

I know when she's gonna blow...

 

[Nikolokolus]

umm, yeah that works for a bullet out of gun barrel. It is commonly known a ballistics.

But we have no gun barrel here nor anything quite as directional. Seems like swag is closer to the mark.

You don't have a barrel per se, but it's not that difficult to look at a large sample of ejected material, measure deformation, average distance from the center of the crater and come up with a pretty good statistical model for force and pressure. You can also look at recent measured eruptions of mountains with similar geology (like St Helens) and get an idea of the kind of forces that were at play in the 1707 eruption. It's never going to be 100% accurate, like a true measurement, but people that study this stuff aren't just pulling these numbers out of their ass either.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

You don't have a barrel per se, but it's not that difficult to look at a large sample of ejected material, measure deformation, average distance from the center of the crater and come up with a pretty good statistical model for force and pressure. You can also look at recent measured eruptions of mountains with similar geology (like St Helens) and get an idea of the kind of forces that were at play in the 1707 eruption. It's never going to be 100% accurate, like a true measurement, but people that study this stuff aren't just pulling these numbers out of their ass either.

Wouldn't the numbers be most likely blown out of their ass?

 

[BlazerWookee]

You don't have a barrel per se, but it's not that difficult to look at a large sample of ejected material, measure deformation, average distance from the center of the crater and come up with a pretty good statistical model for force and pressure. You can also look at recent measured eruptions of mountains with similar geology (like St Helens) and get an idea of the kind of forces that were at play in the 1707 eruption. It's never going to be 100% accurate, like a true measurement, but people that study this stuff aren't just pulling these numbers out of their ass either.

How accurate were measuring tapes in 1707 Japan?

 

[MARIS61]

Meanwhile, radioactive waste from their nuclear power plant has been gushing into the Pacific nonstop for 2 and a half years. Whole species of food fish like tuna have been poisoned and it's only a matter of a few more years until all seafood on the planet will be unsafe to consume.

Meanwhile, no country dares to call them out or insist that they do something about it.

 

[Charcoal Filtered]

Meanwhile, radioactive waste from their nuclear power plant has been gushing into the Pacific nonstop for 2 and a half years. Whole species of food fish like tuna have been poisoned and it's only a matter of a few more years until all seafood on the planet will be unsafe to consume.

Meanwhile, no country dares to call them out or insist that they do something about it.

I would love to hear how this is happening. Care to explain?

 

[Eastoff]

I would love to hear how this is happening. Care to explain?

he's referring to the fukushima reactor. And it's basically true.

 

[BrianFromWA]

radioactive waste from their nuclear power plant has been gushing into the Pacific nonstop for 2 and a half years...it's only a matter of a few more years until all seafood on the planet will be unsafe to consume

And it's basically true.

No, it's basically not. Unless you have different definitions of "gushing", "nonstop", "poisoned", "few" and "unsafe to consume" than most of the rest of the english (and French)-speaking world.

Yeah, don't eat some fish that you catch off of the shore without checking them out first. Here's an unclass wiki blurb from the IRSN report:

According to a report published in October 2011 by the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety, between 21 March and mid-July around 27 PBq of caesium-137 entered the ocean, about 82 percent having flowed into the sea before 8 April. This emission of radioactivity into the sea represents the most important individual emissions of artificial radioactivity into the sea ever observed. The Fukushima coast has one of the world's strongest currents and this transported the contaminated waters far into the Pacific Ocean, causing a high dispersion of the radioactive elements. The results of measurements of both the seawater and the coastal sediments lead to suppose that the consequences of the accident, for what concerns radioactivity, will be minor for marine life as of late 2011 (weak concentration of radioactivity in the water and limited accumulation in sediments). On the other hand, significant pollution of sea water along the coast near the nuclear plant might persist, because of the continuing arrival of radioactive material transported towards the sea by surface water running over contaminated soil. Further, some coastal areas might have less favorable dilution or sedimentation characteristics than those observed so far. Finally, the possible presence of other persistent radioactive substances, such as strontium-90 or plutonium, has not been sufficiently studied. Recent measurements show persistent contamination of some marine species (mostly fish) caught along the coast of Fukushima district. Organisms that filter water and fish at the top of the food chain are, over time, the most sensitive to caesium pollution. It is thus justified to maintain surveillance of marine life that is fished in the coastal waters off Fukushima

 

[Charcoal Filtered]

I know what accident he was referring too. Too many times I hear "radioactivity" thrown around without knowledge of how it supposedly causing problems. I worked with reactors for nearly five years and the risks/exposure are severely overblown in the media.

I am more worried about Monsanto tainting the water supply than I am with this.

 

[Nikolokolus]

How accurate were measuring tapes in 1707 Japan?

How accurate were they when the Egyptians built the pyramids 4000 years ago?

 

[Eastoff]

How accurate were they when the Egyptians built the pyramids 4000 years ago?

Look man, like, we created all of our technology in like 200 years. There's no way Egyptians could do the same in their thousands of year old culture, man. /s

 

[BlazerWookee]

How accurate were they when the Egyptians built the pyramids 4000 years ago?

Measuring blocks for size and positioning isn't quite the same as measuring and recording distances from a giant hole in the ground to the positions of hundreds of thousands of rocks scattered in all directions, hundreds if not thousands of meters away in order to complete extremely complex mathematical calculations...

 

[Eastoff]

Measuring blocks for size and positioning isn't quite the same as measuring and recording distances from a giant hole in the ground to the positions of hundreds of thousands of rocks scattered in all directions, hundreds if not thousands of meters away in order to complete extremely complex mathematical calculations...

some context of japan during that time

e: They probably could do the calculations now. The rocks that were ejected are going to stay about the same size and aren't going to move very far.