{"id":231843,"date":"2026-02-22T05:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/remote-volcano-is-waking-up-after-being-dormant-for-700000-years"},"modified":"2026-02-22T05:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:08:16","slug":"remote-volcano-is-waking-up-after-being-dormant-for-700000-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/remote-volcano-is-waking-up-after-being-dormant-for-700000-years","title":{"rendered":"Remote volcano is waking up after being dormant for 700,000 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/remote-volcano-is-waking-up-after-being-dormant-for-700000-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It sits more than 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) down, so the current push likely comes from gases above it rather than fresh magma reaching the surface.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern looks like a slow squeeze. First the ground rose, then it steadied as new cracks opened and some gas found exit paths.<\/p>\n<p>Taftan volcano is a 12,927 foot (3,940 meter) stratovolcano, a steep volcano that is built of layers of lava and ash. It vents through summit fumaroles \u2013 volcanic vents that emit gas \u2013 which shows the system still moves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sits more than 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) down, so the current push likely comes from gases above it rather than fresh magma reaching the surface. The pattern looks like a slow squeeze. First the ground rose, then it steadied as new cracks opened and some gas found exit paths. Taftan volcano is a 12,927 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231843","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=231843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}