Mt Fuji is due to blow!

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  1. Eastoff

    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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

    [video=youtube;CFWX0hWCbng]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFWX0hWCbng[/video]
     
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    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    How the hell do they know what the pressure level was in a Japanese volcano in 1707?
     
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    that article seems to be from last September...?
     
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    They compared against Mt. Shirane's readings, which had been kept since 1684.
     
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    I have no clue!
     
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    oh no, it's almost been a year since the article! :MARIS61: We're definitely in danger now.
     
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    How did Mr. Shirane measure the pressure? Bunions?
     
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    Mt Fuji, not Mrs. HCP.
     
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    Oh...

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    Thank you. You saved me from typing the same.
     
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    You can measure the amount of compression an object (erupted rock) was under based on distance from its ejection point. Pretty simple physics equation.
     
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    How could they tell that far back? Do they have a 2000-year-old book with all the answers?
     
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    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.
     
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    Maybe Reptilicus lived in the volcano before becoming a movie star, and he kept good records. That's why he needs no agent.
     
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    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.
     
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    Wouldn't the numbers be most likely blown out of their ass?
     
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