4,000 take part in Mt Fuji eruption drill
4,000 take part in Mt Fuji eruption drill.
Nearly 4,000 people took part Sunday in a mass evacuation drill to test responses to a possible eruption of Japan’s highest peak Mt Fuji, weeks after a nearby volcano blew its top and killed at least 56.
The 3,776-meter Fuji last erupted in 1707 but geologists have included it as one of 47 volcanoes in the Pacific Rim country believed to be at risk of eruption in the coming century.
Nearly 4,000 residents in 26 cities, towns and villages in Shizuoka, Yamanashi and Kanagawa prefectures around the mountain took part in the first-ever such drill, said a disaster management official for the Shizuoka prefectural government.
Mt Fuji is just 100 kilometers west of Tokyo.
In the city of Gotemba, about 800 people used their own cars to evacuate along designated routes because public transportation is scarce there, the official, Hayato Mochizuki..
Elderly people in need of care were moved by bus. Firefighters, police and troops searched for people who could not evacuate in time, he said.
Eriko Yamatani, the state minister in charge of disaster management, and the governors of the three prefectures took part in a video conference to oversee the operation.
On Sept 27, Mt Ontake, some 120 kilometers Mt Fuji, erupted without warning—killing 56 people and leaving at least seven others missing in Japan’s deadliest eruption for almost 90 years.
Mochizuki said the Mt Fuji exercise had been planned for three years.
“But because of the (Ontake) eruption, we are conducting the drill in a serious atmosphere.”
The Mt Fuji drill—whose scale was unprecedented—was based on the scenario that an eruption occurred at a height of about 2,000 meters at 11 am with ash and smoke soaring 20 kilometers and lava flowing from craters.
More than 20 concrete blocks each weighing about two tons were placed to serve as a dyke and prevent the lava from flowing into a city area, Kyodo news agency said.
In the three prefectures, 470,000 people would be forced to evacuate due to volcanic ash in the event that Mt Fuji erupted on a scale similar to that envisaged in the exercise, according to an official estimate
At Least 9 Dead as Typhoon Hits Northern Japan
At least nine elderly people were killed when their nursing home was flooded in northern Japan after Typhoon Lionrock dumped heavy rains on the area.
The bodies of all nine residents were found at a nursing home in the town of Iwaizumi in Iwate prefecture, when police were checking another facility in the flooded neighborhood, said Takehiro Hayashijiri, an official at a prefectural disaster management division.
Hayashijiri said identity of the bodies or other details, including whereabouts of their caretakers, were not known. NHK said the nursing home was for the residents with dementia.
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Nuclear Watch: Tepco try working to provide safety for restart the Nuclear Plants 10/23/2014
More public briefings on Sendai nuclear plant
Nuclear & Energy
Oct. 22, 2014 - Updated 14:20 UTC+2
Sendai plant unlikely to be restarted by year-end
Nuclear & Energy
Oct. 21, 2014 - Updated 21:58 UTC+2
Japan's nuclear regulators are calling for more information about the measures for the first plant that has passed revised government requirements to prepare nuclear plants for disasters.
Officials from the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Tuesday met representatives of Kyushu Electric Power Company who want to restart the Sendai plant in Kagoshima Prefecture.
The utility must gain the authority's approval for detailed facility designs and management systems to put the plant back online.
The regulators said the utility has failed to provide sufficient explanations about the plant's quake resistance and other matters.
The operator plans to give additional explanations at a later date. This makes it likely that the authority will grant its approval in November at the earliest.
If the utility decides to revise documents submitted to the authority, the approval will be further delayed.
Even after the authority gives the go-ahead, the new facilities at the plant need to undergo inspections.
Taking these matters into account, it seems unlikely that the plant will be back online by the year-end even if local governments agree to the restart.
The local government hosting the Sendai nuclear power plant in southern Japan will hold an additional briefing for residents. It will mainly be about evacuation plans in the event of a nuclear accident.
Kagoshima Prefecture has already held sessions on safety measures by the plant operator, Kyushu Electric Power Company, in 5 municipalities around the nuclear plant, ending Monday.
Last month, Japan's nuclear regulators approved the measures, saying they met revised government requirements for restarting the nuclear plant.
The prefecture will hold an extra session on October 29th in Hioki City near the plant.
Government and prefectural officials will explain evacuation procedures and other emergency measures. Power company staff will describe its safety steps.
Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji (富士山, Fujisan, IPA: [ɸɯꜜdʑisaɴ] ( )), located on Honshu Island, is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft). An active stratovolcano that last erupted in 1707--08, Mount Fuji lies about 100 kilometres (60 mi) south-west of Tokyo, and can be seen from there on a clear day. Mount Fuji's exceptionally symmetrical cone, which is snow-capped several months a year, is a well-known symbol of Japan and it is frequently depicted in art and photographs, as well as visited by sightseers and climbers. It is one of Japan's Three Holy Mountains (三霊山, Sanreizan) along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku; it is a Special Place of Scenic Beauty, a Historic Site, and was added to the World Heritage List as a Cultural Site on June 22, 2013.
The mountain has been selected as a cultural rather than a natural heritage site. As per UNESCO, Mount Fuji has inspired artists and poets and been the object of pilgrimage for centuries. The 25 locations include the mountain itself, Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha and six other Sengen shrines, two lodging houses, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Kawaguchi, the eight Oshino Hakkai hot springs, two lava tree molds, the remains of the Fuji-kō cult in the Hitoana cave, Shiraito Falls, and Miho no Matsubara pine tree grove.
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Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji ), located on Honshu Island, is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776.24 m . An active stratovolcano that last erupted in 1707--08, Mount Fuji lies about 100 kilometres south-west of Tokyo, and can be seen from there on a clear day. Mount Fuji's exceptionally symmetrical cone, which is snow-capped several months a year, is a well-known symbol of Japan and it is frequently depicted in art and photographs, as well as visited by sightseers and climbers. It is one of Japan's Three Holy Mountains along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku; it is a Special Place of Scenic Beauty, a Historic Site, and was added to the World Heritage List as a Cultural Site on June 22nd, 2013.
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