{"id":149580,"date":"2022-11-06T09:25:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T15:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-eruption-released-the-highest-volcanic-plume-ever-recorded"},"modified":"2022-11-06T09:25:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T15:25:40","slug":"hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-eruption-released-the-highest-volcanic-plume-ever-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-eruption-released-the-highest-volcanic-plume-ever-recorded","title":{"rendered":"Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai Eruption Released The Highest Volcanic Plume Ever Recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pYf6QXn4I4g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A spectacular and explosive volcanic eruption in January 2022 produced the highest plume of steam and ash in recorded history.<\/p>\n<p>The towering column that arose from Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai reached a tremendous altitude of 57 kilometers (35 miles) above sea level.<\/p>\n<p>That height makes it the first-ever volcanic eruption seen to have punched completely through the stratosphere to breach the mesosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spectacular and explosive volcanic eruption in January 2022 produced the highest plume of steam and ash in recorded history. The towering column that arose from Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai reached a tremendous altitude of 57 kilometers (35 miles) above sea level. That height makes it the first-ever volcanic eruption seen to have punched completely through [\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-149580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149580","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=149580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}