Fun Facts

• More than half of the world’s active volcanoes above sea level encircle the Pacific Ocean to form the Ring of Fire.

• " Between Northern California and British Columbia, the Pacific, Juan de Fuca, and Gorda plates have built the Cascades and the infamous Mount Saint Helens, which erupted in 1980.
• Alaska's Aleutian Islands are growing as the Pacific plate hits the North American plate. The deep Aleutian Trench has been created at the subduction zone with a maximum depth of 25,194 feet (7679 meters).
• From Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula to Japan, the subduction of the Pacific plate under the Eurasian plate is responsible for Japanese islands and volcanoes (such as Mt. Fuji).
• The final section of the Ring of Fire exists where the Indo-Australian plate subducts under the Pacific plate and has created volcanoes in the New Guinea and Micronesian areas. Near New Zealand, the Pacific Plate slides under the Indo-Australian plate."

http://geography.about.com/cs/earthquakes/a/ringoffire.htm

• Mt. Fuji also houses a warrior tradition: ancient samurai used the base of the mountain as a remote training area, near the present day town of Gotemba. As of 2005, the Japan Self-Defence Forces and the United States Marine Corps operate military bases near Mount Fuji.

http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/travel/mount_fuji_history.html

• Mt Fuji and the surrounding area is a frequently utilised battleground in the Godzilla series, most notably in Destroy All Monsters, Godzilla vs The Smog Monster and Godzilla: Final Wars.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:xj-ta1aJsQcJ:www.answers.com/topic/mount-fuji+mount+fuji+facts&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:9fpiVqgcixAJ:csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/Fichter/PlateTect/synopsis.html+plate+tectonics+under+pacific+ocean&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10