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Scientist warns of Fuji eruption chaos
A Japanese scientist has warned Mount Fuji is due for a "big-scale explosive eruption" that could affect millions of people and cause billions of dollars worth of damage.
Last month a study found the which could even trigger a volcanic eruption.
It said the added pressure could have been caused by last year's earthquake, which was followed a few days later by another large tremor directly underneath Fuji.
Professor Toshitsugu Fujii, the head of Japan's volcanic eruption prediction panel, says an eruption could cause chaos and carnage all the way to Tokyo.
"Mount Fuji has been resting for 300 years now, and this is abnormal," he told Saturday AM.
"It usually erupts in some form every 30 years.
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