{"id":81611,"date":"2013-08-19T11:17:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T02:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41075"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:56:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:56:36","slug":"sakurajima-record-eruption","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/sakurajima-record-eruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakurajima Record Eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Located just across the bay from Kagoshima City (population 600,000), Sakurajima, one of Japan&#8217;s most active volcanoes, experienced one of its most powerful eruptions in decades Sunday, sending an ash a 5,000 meters into the air (a record since 1995). The volcano began to erupt at 4:31 p.m. local time Sunday. Visibility in the city of Kagoshima, where the volcano sits, deteriorated quickly as ash fell onto populated portions of the city and a pyroclastic flow, a fast-moving current of gas and rock, was observed along a one-kilometer (0.6-mile) swath on the southeast flank of the mountain. Watch a video report here: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/CH12gKEcWSA \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/CH12gKEcWSA <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/world-news\/japan-volcano-erupts\/story-fndir2ev-1226699595142\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41076\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/592899-japan-volcano-eruption.jpg?resize=650%2C366\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/592899-japan-volcano-eruption.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/592899-japan-volcano-eruption.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/world-news\/japan-volcano-erupts\/story-fndir2ev-1226699595142\" target=\"_blank\">Image source<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located just across the bay from Kagoshima City (population 600,000), Sakurajima, one of Japan&#8217;s most active volcanoes, experienced one of its most powerful eruptions in decades Sunday, sending an ash a 5,000 meters into the air (a record since 1995). The volcano began to erupt at 4:31 p.m. local time Sunday. Visibility in the city of Kagoshima, where the volcano sits, deteriorated quickly as ash fell onto populated portions of the city and a pyroclastic flow, a fast-moving current of gas and rock, was observed along a one-kilometer (0.6-mile) swath on the southeast flank of the mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":41076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-81611","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-environment","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/81611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}