Catalog record
These fields are copied from the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program Holocene volcano snapshot stored on this site. The file was fetched 2026-09-19T12:21:44Z. It is a location catalog, not a live alert.
- Catalog name
- Fujisan
- GVP number
- 283030
- Country
- Japan
- Type
- Stratovolcano
- Elevation
- 3,776 m
- Region
- Northwestern Pacific Volcanic Regions
- Subregion
- Izu Volcanic Arc
- Tectonic setting
- Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
- Last-eruption year
- 1708
- Evidence code
- Eruption Observed
- Latitude, longitude
- 35.361, 138.728
Elevation rank in the Izu Volcanic Arc in this snapshot: 1 of 17. Rank is by the listed elevation only. It is not a hazard ranking.
How to read the last-eruption year
The year is a catalog field. A recent year means the snapshot recorded activity in that year. It is not an alert level, a size, or a statement about what happens next. Evidence codes in this file include “Eruption Observed” and “Eruption Dated.” Those are Smithsonian categories for how the eruption year was established, not a forecast flag.
Setting
GVP places Fujisan in the Izu Volcanic Arc. This site’s Izu–Bonin–Mariana rectangle ends at 35°N. The catalog latitude is 35.361°N, so the point falls in the Japan / Ryukyu rectangle and not in the Izu–Bonin–Mariana rectangle. That is a property of our boxes, not a claim that the volcano left its arc.
The last-eruption year is 1708 and the evidence code is “Eruption Observed.” Fujisan is not the Japan Trench. The trench page covers great earthquakes in the USGS list offshore Honshu, including the 2011 M9.1 Tohoku earthquake. An arc volcano and a trench earthquake can share a region and still be different sources.
Inside these documented rectangles: Japan / Ryukyu. The rectangles are documented on the About page. They are a lat/lon belt, not an official plate polygon.
Other volcanoes in this subregion
Highest listed elevations in the Izu Volcanic Arc in this snapshot, excluding this volcano when it is already first:
- Hakoneyama, 1,438 m, last-eruption year 2015.
- Hachijojima, 854 m, last-eruption year 1606.
- Mikurajima, 851 m, last-eruption year 4100 BCE.
Distance to published great-earthquake epicenters
The distances below use this volcano’s catalog coordinates and epicenters from the USGS list of the 20 largest earthquakes since 1900. They are spherical distances to points, not distances to a fault trace, and not a hazard score.
- 2011 M9.1 Tohoku, Japan (2011-03-11 05:46 UTC) — 460 km from the catalog point.
- 1933 M8.4 Sanriku, Japan (1933-03-02 17:31 UTC) — 672 km from the catalog point.
- 1963 M8.5 Kuril Islands (1963-10-13 05:18 UTC) — 1,395 km from the catalog point.
You can repeat the measurement for any coordinates on the distance to fault references tool.
What this page will not tell you
It will not tell you the next eruption time, the next earthquake on the neighboring trench, or an evacuation route. For U.S. volcano notices, use the USGS Volcano Hazards Program. For earthquakes, use the USGS event pages linked from Live Quakes. This site’s volcano map only draws the Holocene catalog.