After the government announced the evacuation order, residents around Mount Fuji were quickly evacuated. Around two hundred thousand people left their villages and towns and relocated to safer places.
Japanese television stations and online news outlets reported on Mount Fuji every day. The earthquake authorities stationed personnel at Mount Fuji and conducted a more detailed survey, announcing that the volcano's internal temperature and stress levels had indeed risen.
The international community was also paying close attention to Japan's situation. Because of Jiang Hao's earlier prediction, people were eagerly awaiting an eruption of Mount Fuji.
That was right. The vast majority of people were looking forward to it, wanting to see whether Jiang Hao's prophecy would come true.
Meanwhile, Jiang Hao and Professor Yamaizumi, along with a group of experts, had gone out to sea. A research vessel and a deep-sea drilling ship were anchored side by side above the Japan Trench.
They deployed two autonomous unmanned submersibles for exploration and data collection. Japan's research into unmanned submersibles was quite advanced. Its latest "Deep Dive 12000" could easily descend into the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Silver Dollars.
The deep-sea drilling ship was used to survey seabed mineral deposits, but it could now conduct deep-sea seafloor operations, drilling out seabed rock samples while gathering more direct data.
As all kinds of data were collected, the experts analyzed them aboard the research vessel and modeled various charts. Their expressions grew increasingly grim.
Professor Yamaizumi pointed at the screen and said with a frown, "The continued earthquakes have made the Pacific Plate increasingly fragile. The Japanese archipelago sits atop a funnel that could collapse at any moment. Plate displacement is accelerating, and underground activity is intensifying. As the Pacific Plate continues to angle beneath the Eurasian Plate, the trench it has