{"id":122637,"date":"2021-05-16T10:22:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T17:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/scientists-have-figured-out-what-triggers-large-scale-volcanic-eruptions"},"modified":"2021-05-16T10:22:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T17:22:22","slug":"scientists-have-figured-out-what-triggers-large-scale-volcanic-eruptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/scientists-have-figured-out-what-triggers-large-scale-volcanic-eruptions","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Figured Out What Triggers Large-Scale Volcanic Eruptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-figured-out-what-triggers-large-scale-volcanic-eruptions.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lava flow from Hawaii\u2019s Kilauea Volcano enters the ocean near Isaac Hale Beach Park on August 5, 2018. The volcano\u2019s 2018 eruption was its largest in over 200 years. Credit: USGS<\/p>\n<p><em>Scientists have figured out what triggers large-scale volcanic eruptions and what conditions likely lead to them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hawaii\u2019s Kilauea is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. Because of this and its relative ease of accessibility, it is also among the most heavily outfitted with monitoring equipment \u2013 instruments that measure and record everything from earthquakes and ground movement to lava volume and advancement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lava flow from Hawaii\u2019s Kilauea Volcano enters the ocean near Isaac Hale Beach Park on August 5, 2018. The volcano\u2019s 2018 eruption was its largest in over 200 years. Credit: USGS Scientists have figured out what triggers large-scale volcanic eruptions and what conditions likely lead to them. Hawaii\u2019s Kilauea is one of the most [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}