{"id":242015,"date":"2026-08-01T16:06:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/within-20-km-of-2-million-people-major-volcano-is-hiding-two-active-magma-chambers"},"modified":"2026-08-01T16:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:06:40","slug":"within-20-km-of-2-million-people-major-volcano-is-hiding-two-active-magma-chambers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/within-20-km-of-2-million-people-major-volcano-is-hiding-two-active-magma-chambers","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Within 20 Km of 2 Million People\u2019: Major Volcano Is Hiding Two Active Magma Chambers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/within-20-km-of-2-million-people-major-volcano-is-hiding-two-active-magma-chambers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A major volcano in Nicaragua has not one but two active <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/one-of-earths-most-explosive-volcanoes-is-quietly-refilling-with-magma\">magma chambers<\/a>, scientists reveal in a new study, shedding important light on the inner workings of a highly active volcano located near a large human population.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masaya_Volcano\">Masaya<\/a> in western Nicaragua is one of the region\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=344100\">busiest volcanoes<\/a>, although its activity in modern times has been mostly \u201cpassive degassing, lava lake formation, and vent-clearing explosions,\u201d the study\u2019s authors write in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2026GL123214\"><em>Geophysical Research Letters<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a basaltic shield volcano, so that behavior isn\u2019t surprising. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-world-s-largest-volcano-isn-t-what-we-thought-it-was\">Shield volcanoes<\/a> are known for highly fluid lava that erupts in slow, effusive flows \u2013 such as typical Hawaiian eruptions \u2013 rather than the violent blasts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-worlds-most-mysterious-volcano-can-finally-be-explained\">stratovolcanoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major volcano in Nicaragua has not one but two active magma chambers, scientists reveal in a new study, shedding important light on the inner workings of a highly active volcano located near a large human population. Masaya in western Nicaragua is one of the region\u2019s busiest volcanoes, although its activity in modern times has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242015","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}