{"id":2813,"date":"2014-08-20T13:17:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T18:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2014-08-20T13:17:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T18:17:56","slug":"iceland-bardarbunga-volcano-at-an-increased-risk-of-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/iceland-bardarbunga-volcano-at-an-increased-risk-of-eruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland Bardarbunga volcano at an increased risk of eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2814\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/OdSi_bardarbunga19221V_rth_en.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2814\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2814\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/OdSi_bardarbunga19221V_rth_en-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"The B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga in 1996. (Photo credit: Oddur Sigur\u00f0sson, Icelandic Meteorological Office)\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/OdSi_bardarbunga19221V_rth_en-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/OdSi_bardarbunga19221V_rth_en.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga in 1996. (Photo credit: Oddur Sigur\u00f0sson, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.vedur.is\/about-imo\/news\/bigimg\/2938?ListID=0\">Icelandic Meteorological Office<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Four years after ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland disrupted air traffic in Europe for six days, scientists have heard ominous rumblings from another volcano, Bardarbunga. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On August 18, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the Icelandic Meteorological Office raised aviation alert level to orange, meaning that \u201c<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.vedur.is\/weather\/aviation\/volcanic-hazards\/\" target=\"_blank\">it shows heightened or escalating unrest with increased potential of eruption<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201d. Intense seismic activity that started on August 16 persisted through <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1558975840\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Monday<\/span><\/span>, but no magma was observed moving on the surface yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> The B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano is located under the ice cap of Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier and is the second highest mountain in Iceland (2,009 meters). It is a stratovolcano \u00a0similar to the Krakatoa (Indonesia) and Vesuvius (Italia).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland disrupted air traffic in Europe for six days, scientists have heard ominous rumblings from another volcano, Bardarbunga. On August 18, the Icelandic Meteorological Office raised aviation alert level to orange, meaning that \u201cit shows heightened or escalating unrest with increased potential of eruption\u201d. Intense seismic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/OdSi_bardarbunga19221V_rth_en.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Jn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}