{"id":174637,"date":"2023-10-24T09:23:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/japans-sakurajima-volcano-erupts-in-a-spectacle-of-fire-smoke-and-volcanic-lightning"},"modified":"2023-10-24T09:23:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:23:13","slug":"japans-sakurajima-volcano-erupts-in-a-spectacle-of-fire-smoke-and-volcanic-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/japans-sakurajima-volcano-erupts-in-a-spectacle-of-fire-smoke-and-volcanic-lightning","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Sakurajima Volcano Erupts in A Spectacle of Fire, Smoke, and Volcanic Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japans-sakurajima-volcano-erupts-in-a-spectacle-of-fire-smoke-and-volcanic-lightning.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the early hours of October 24, 2023, the southern peak of Sakurajima roared, dramatically punctuating the Kagoshima City skyline. The volcanic eruption, Japan\u2019s second-largest this year, sent a plume of smoke spiraling 3,400 meters above the crater. This follows another eruption on October 19, which reached an even greater height of 3,600 meters. A Spectacle of Fire and Lightning The eruption was not just a spectacle of fire and smoke\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early hours of October 24, 2023, the southern peak of Sakurajima roared, dramatically punctuating the Kagoshima City skyline. The volcanic eruption, Japan\u2019s second-largest this year, sent a plume of smoke spiraling 3,400 meters above the crater. This follows another eruption on October 19, which reached an even greater height of 3,600 meters. A [\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-174637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174637","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=174637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}