計り知れない富士山の恵み

The Mt. Fuji is located at the triple junction

富士山はなぜ巨大なのか？

富士山は、フィリピン海、ユーラシア（アムール）、北米（オホーツク）プレートという３つのプレート境界に位置し、東西39㎞、南北37㎞で400ｦ3以上の体積を有する我が国最大の玄武岩質の成層火山である。富士山が巨大である理由として、マグマが長期間にわたり供給され続けていることが考えられる。

伊豆半島をのせたフィリピン海プレートは、駿河トラフを境界にしてユーラシア（アムール）プレートの下に、また相模トラフを境界にして北米（オホーツク）プレートのそれぞれ下に沈み込み、これら３つのプレートの境界が接する部分がほぼ富士山の直下にあたる。沈み込んだフィリピン海プレートは、厚い板状の形をしているため東海スラブと呼ばれる。

地震波のデータによれば、沈み込んだ東海スラブは、富士山の下で北西方向に進む関東スラブと西方向に進む東海スラブに引き裂かれているように見える。このため、地殻下部、更にはその下位のマントルからこの隙間を埋めるように多量のマグマが上昇している可能性があり、これが富士山に長期間にわたりマグマが供給されるシステムではないかとする考えが提唱されている

The Capyparas relaxe in a hot spring in the Izu cactus park

"The Triple Junction"
Mount Fuji is located at the triple junction where the Amurian Plate, the Okhotsk Plate, and the Philippine Sea Plate meet. Those plates form the western part of Japan, the eastern part of Japan, and the Izu Peninsula respectively.

Scientists have identified four distinct phases of volcanic activity in the formation of Mount Fuji. The first phase, called Sen-komitake, is composed of an andesite core recently discovered deep within the mountain. Sen-komitake was followed by the "Komitake Fuji," a basalt layer believed to be formed several hundred thousand years ago. Approximately 100,000 years ago, "Old Fuji" was formed over the top of Komitake Fuji. The modern, "New Fuji" is believed to have formed over the top of Old Fuji around 10,000 years ago.[37]

Hot Spring Resort, IZU-HAKONE area

The volcano is currently classified as active with a low risk of eruption. The last recorded eruption was the HM ei eruption which started on December 16, 1707 (Hoei 4, 23rd day of the 11th month) and ended about January 1, 1708 (HM ei 4, 9th day of the 12th month) during the Edo period.

The eruption formed a new crater and a second peak (named HM ei-zan after the Hoei era) halfway down its side. Fuji spewed cinders and ash which fell like rain in Izu, Kai, Sagami, and Musashi.[39] Since then, there have been no signs of an eruption.

  The Capypara relaxes in a hot spring in the Izu cactus park

Japanese Lawmaker Warned of Backup Power Failure

A Japanese lawmaker last year raised in Parliament the possibility that a natural disaster could wipe out a nuclear reactor's backup systems, leading to melting in the core, but the country's top nuclear regulator responded that such a scenario was "practically impossible."

A landslide or earthquake could knock out a nuclear plant's emergency power as well as cut off power supplies from outside, Communist Party legislator Hidekatsu Yoshii told a parliamentary committee in May 2010. Such a sequence of events could remove the ability to cool the reactor's core, Mr. Yoshii said. That sequence occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant two weeks ago.

The exchange reflects what critics say was an unwillingness among Japanese regulators and reactor operators to prepare for worst-case scenarios. Industry publications repeatedly pointed to the many levels of backup systems in place to keep power and cooling water flowing to nuclear reactors in emergencies.

Mr. Yoshii took a different view, according to a transcript of the parliamentary meeting.
"Based on past examples both at home and abroad, we have to be prepared for worst-case scenarios," Mr. Yoshii said. "We need to be ready for an extremely serious situation where inability to eliminate the heat in the reactor after its shutdown could lead to melting of the reactor core."

Yoshinobu Terasaka, the director general of the government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, replied that such a situation was "theoretically possible" but nearly unthinkable.
 A nuclear meltdown would have to involve the loss of outside power, in-house emergency power, backup diesel generators and the ability to bring in power from nearby power plants, Mr. Terasaka said. The likelihood of even one of those events was "extremely small," he said.

"We put in place engineering designs so we won't allow such a situation, the worst kind of situation, to occur," Mr. Terasaka said, according to the transcript. "We push our safety designs to the point where such a situation is practically impossible."

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has said that the earthquake and tsunami that wiped out both regular and backup power at its Fukushima Daiichi plant were bigger than any the company had planned for.
"In the end, they just thought that a severe accident would never happen," Mr. Yoshii said in an interview.

A spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency declined to comment on the exchange.
Mr. Yoshii, who campaigns against the continued use of nuclear energy, has raised such issues in Parliament many times before. In March 2006, he warned that a tsunami could submerge and destroy the diesel engines that pump cooling water to nuclear plants—something that happened at Fukushima Daiichi.

In October 2006, Mr. Yoshii said domestic and overseas accidents had shown that a large-scale earthquake might knock out all outside and backup power at a nuclear plant. (by WSJ)

Was the Japan Earthquake & Tsunami 311 related to the Ancient Mayan calendar? 古代マヤ暦との関連性 - 環太平洋火山帯

Reference: "Was the Japan Earthquakeelated to the Mayan calendar?" Carl Johan Calleman

 In the discussions about the meaning of “2012” suggestions have commonly been made that we would be approaching a time filled with so called Earth Changes and natural disasters of different kinds to the point where it has sometimes been presented as if this would be all that the Mayan calendar is all about. Especially in the light of the terrible disaster that has struck Japan only a few days after the beginning of the 9th wave it then becomes natural to ask if this was predictable based on the Mayan calendar and if there are more such to expect for instance in the Pacific Rim of Fire.

Earthquakes have their origin in the continental drift, which is caused by convection streams in the mantle rising from the hot interior of the Earth. As these convection streams cause tectonic plates to move tensions between these plates will be created on the surface of the Earth and when these are released enormous energies may give rise to disasters. As I have presented both in Solving the Greatest Mystery of Time: The Mayan Calendar (2001) and The Purposeful Universe (2009) the continental drift in general has its origin in the alautun shifts of the Mayan calendar that in the Mammalian Underworld was behind this drift. In this very general sense you might say that all earthquakes (and Volcanic eruptions) have an origin in the shifts that the Mayan calendar describes.

Given that an alautun is as much as 63.1 million years long and the size of the continents there has however hardly existed any basis for making detailed predictions as to when and where an earthquake may strike. To my knowledge no one has been able to provide a convincing pattern relating smaller Earthquakes to the Mayan calendar even though serious attempts have been made (see for instance William C. Treurniet’s http://www.treurniet.ca/MayanCal/QuakeMC.htm). There are many factors complicating such predictions and so for instance while some sources claim that there has been an increase in earthquakes over the past decades for quakes 3.0 and above on the Richter scale the US Geological Survey maintains that the number of quakes of 7.0 (which are potentially of a disastrous nature) has remained constant over several decades. I see no reason to question their general assessment even though today with the high population density all over the world there is always a very serious risk that large numbers of human lives will be lost.

Nonetheless, I tend to believe that the terrible 9.0 quake that hit Japan was directly related to the beginning of the Ninth wave. There are a few reasons that I believe this to be the case. The first is that already on March 9, 2011 a very unusual pattern was apparent in the printouts of global seismographs (as observed by Frank Zweers: see http://nunki.nl/post/3746640161/9-march-2011-activation-of-the-9th-wave). This observation was made before, and lasted until, the actual quake in Japan took place and showed that something was in the works already as the energy of the Ninth wave first started to come in. The other reason to believe that the quake and tsunami in Japan was actually related to the beginning of the Ninth wave is the astonishing parallel with the great Lisbon Earthquake in 1755.
Both of these quakes, and the tsunamis that followed, happened as a new wave in the Mayan calendar began, the one in Lisbon at the beginning of the Planetary Underworld and the one in Sendai at the beginning of the Universal.

The one in Lisbon hit several months (on All Saints Day) after the day on which the new wave had been activated, but given that this wave had a much lower frequency this is what you would expect if you saw it as an immediate effect of this. The strength of both quakes has been estimated to 9.0, and there were in both cases also many aftershocks. They occurred at exactly the same latitude and not far from opposite longitudes on the planet and this is again exactly what you would expect if they were related to the shift in the Mayan calendar.

The logic here is that as a new wave is activated changes take place in the interior of the Earth in order to create a new form of resonance to the human beings. While the Seventh Wave favored the back side of the planet (where Lisbon is located) the Ninth Wave is expected to favor the front side of the planet (where Japan is located). If this reasoning is true we would look upon these two quakes as reflections of adjustments in the interior of the Earth that are necessary to mediate the information from the Cosmic Tree of Life to the human beings.

The Lisbon quake in 1755 is considered one of the most devastating of all time and prompted the development of modern systems of surveillance. It also had strong repercussions of a philosophical nature and so for instance Voltaire argued that the creator overseeing this world could not be benevolent as he allowed this disaster to destroy a whole capital of Europe taking more than 100,000 lives. In a similar way I know some people are now asking if the 9th wave that seemed to be designed to bring unity consciousness will bring many natural catastrophes such as earthquakes. Could there be a benevolent plan behind this? Before we place judgment on the intelligence that created this cosmic plan I feel we should be aware that it is not necessarily an easy thing to manifest such a plan without causing some harm. In fact, paleontologists argue that plate tectonics, which only the Earth has among the planets of the solar system, is a necessary pre-requisite for the evolution of life and so without earthquakes we would not be here in the first place. Such intellectual arguments obviously do not ease the pain of someone who has lost a daughter or a husband in an earthquake, but for others it may help us understand that there is no evil intent behind the creation of plate tectonics on the part of the Creator.

I thus think that plate tectonics and earthquakes are a necessary side effect of the creation of resonance between the human beings and the Earth and that when a new wave starts its interior structure needs to undergo change. I also believe that this is a time when we need to show our solidarity with the Japanese people and offer help in the ways that it is in our power to do. My own view is that we should continue to focus on the transformation to unity consciousness and praying for and sharing the experience of the Japanese people is exactly an expression of this. I do not believe that there will necessarily be an increased frequency of strong quakes in the time to come (there was for instance not such an increase after the Lisbon quake), but this is only a guess. Yet, while we always have a choice as to how to look upon reality I believe that what will lead us forward is the light. Maybe the Earth is now adjusted to mediate unity consciousness to the human beings, which remains our highest purpose and presumably also that of the cosmic plan.

Japan Ancient Keyhole tombs in Sakai, Osaka