{"id":164435,"date":"2023-05-23T19:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T00:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/mount-etna-has-its-first-major-eruption-in-30-years-and-footage-is-spectacular-video"},"modified":"2023-05-23T19:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T00:22:50","slug":"mount-etna-has-its-first-major-eruption-in-30-years-and-footage-is-spectacular-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/mount-etna-has-its-first-major-eruption-in-30-years-and-footage-is-spectacular-video","title":{"rendered":"Mount Etna has its first major eruption in 30 years, and footage is spectacular (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mount-etna-has-its-first-major-eruption-in-30-years-and-footage-is-spectacular-video2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mount Etna enjoyed its first major eruption in 30 years on Sunday, and footage of the busy volcano\u2019s spewing and flowing orange lava against the black and white billowing smoke is stunning. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Earth42morrow\/status\/1660343958042730496\">video<\/a> caught by Massimiliano Salfi, posted by Earth42morrow, below).<\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s most active volcano caused Sicily\u2019s Catania airport to shut down yesterday after ash covered its runways, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/mount-etna-eruption-sicily-flight-cancellations-scli-intl\/index.html\">according to CNN<\/a>, but has mostly reopened as of Monday.<\/p>\n<p>People in nearby towns reportedly heard loud booming sounds at the time of the eruption, but no injuries have been reported. Mount Etna\u2019s last eruption of this size <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.sports.yahoo.com\/news\/icymi-mount-etna-proved-still-152537211.html\">was in 1992<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Etna enjoyed its first major eruption in 30 years on Sunday, and footage of the busy volcano\u2019s spewing and flowing orange lava against the black and white billowing smoke is stunning. (See video caught by Massimiliano Salfi, posted by Earth42morrow, below). Europe\u2019s most active volcano caused Sicily\u2019s Catania airport to shut down yesterday after [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164435","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=164435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}