Japanese authorities have released a harrowing AI-generated video showing what an eruption of Mount Fuji might look like.

The sacred mountain, an active volcano that sits just 60 miles southwest of Japan's densely populated capital city of Tokyo, normally erupts every 210 years.

But it has been dormant for over three centuries.

The video shows an enormous grey plume of ash and smoke towering in the sky above Tokyo, spreading a dark, vast cloud over the city.

It cuts to scenes of the capital buried under a thick layer of ash as a voiceover warns: 'The moment may arrive without any warning.