{"id":185287,"date":"2024-03-17T08:29:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T13:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/a-volcano-in-iceland-is-erupting-for-the-fourth-time-in-3-months-sending-plumes-of-lava-skywards"},"modified":"2024-03-17T08:29:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T13:29:04","slug":"a-volcano-in-iceland-is-erupting-for-the-fourth-time-in-3-months-sending-plumes-of-lava-skywards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/a-volcano-in-iceland-is-erupting-for-the-fourth-time-in-3-months-sending-plumes-of-lava-skywards","title":{"rendered":"A volcano in Iceland is erupting for the fourth time in 3 months, sending plumes of lava skywards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-volcano-in-iceland-is-erupting-for-the-fourth-time-in-3-months-sending-plumes-of-lava-skywards2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) \u2014 A <a class=\"\" data-gtm-enhancement- href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iceland-volcano-eruption-0840241f66c7799b55dfff4c3d4c4cc8\">volcano in Iceland<\/a> erupted Saturday evening for the fourth time in three months, sending orange jets of lava into the night sky.<\/p>\n<p>Iceland\u2019s Meteorological Office said the eruption opened a fissure in the earth about 3 kilometers (almost 2 miles) long between St\u00f3ra-Sk\u00f3gfell and Hagafell mountains on the Reykjanes Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The Met Office had warned for weeks that magma \u2014 semi-molten rock \u2014 was accumulating under the ground, making an eruption likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) \u2014 A volcano in Iceland erupted Saturday evening for the fourth time in three months, sending orange jets of lava into the night sky. Iceland\u2019s Meteorological Office said the eruption opened a fissure in the earth about 3 kilometers (almost 2 miles) long between St\u00f3ra-Sk\u00f3gfell and Hagafell mountains on the Reykjanes Peninsula. [\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-185287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185287","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=185287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}