8. Mt. Fuji
Mt. Fuji is located on the Honshu island in Japan. It is the tallest mountain in Japan and stands 12, 389ft! This is one of those volcanoes that alot of people know about. It's a very popular volcano and is seen in many pictures and paintings! Although it hasn't erupted since 1707-1708 it is still considered an active volcano!
I like this volcano because it's just beautiful! It is snow capped for most of the year! It like the other volcanoes I've talked about is a stratovolcano with steep sloping sides! I like this volcano because it's beauty attracts people and allows people to learn more about volcanoes!
#7 Mt. Pinatubo
Mt. Pinatubo is located on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The volcano was once 5,725 feet tall before a huge eruption in 1991. This eruption was the 2nd biggest in the 20th century. It ejected 10,000,000,000 tonnes (1.1×1010 short tons) of magma and an enormous amount of other things. It ejected a a huge amount of aerosol into the atmosphere. The effects of that actually cooled the earth slightly! The eruption was so large that the volcano is now only 2,000 ft tall. It caused wide spread destruction! But the people around this volcano were very lucky. A large group of scientist(some of which also watched Mt. St. Helens when it was getting ready to erupt) were watching the volcano closely. They saw was about to happen and evacuated 10,000 of people and saving alot of lives. Sadly 847 people still lost their lives. Most of them died from roofs collapsing under the enormous weight of all the ash the volcano shot out. But many lost their lives because of damage to healthcare facilities. Overall the efforts of the scientist who predicted this eruption and their ability to make sure so many people were warned and safely evacuated was considered a great success for the vulconology world(who is not always taken seriously and was even less though during that time)!
I like this volcano for a few reasons. The volcano is gorgeous. The eruption opened up a large caldera on the volcano that filled with rain water to form a lake. The water is so gorgeously blue and in the middle is a lava dome that looks like an island! I also like Mt.Pinatubo because of it's connections to another one of my favorite volcanoes that I will talk about in another blog, Mt.St. Helens. The investigation and studying of the 1980 eruption at Mt. St. Helens was just wrapping up with Pinatubo began to awaken and show signs of eruptions. A group of the scientist that had spent time watching and studying Mt. St. Helens used the information they gathered there to predict the eruption of Pinatubo and because of that as already mentioned save so many lives. People still live along the flanks of the volcano like many other volcanoes because of it's rich fertile soil! Pinatubo has been quiet since 1992 but you never know when these volcanoes will wake up! It's the volcanoes like this one that only erupt every so often that are the most devastating have the larger eruptions! Here are some pictures of Pinatubo!
I hope you enjoyed this blog! Still thinking strongly about posting a 2nd one tonight! If you have any question fell free to ask me. Hopefully I will have the answer for you or can find it for you!
