{"id":15233,"date":"2023-09-24T09:33:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T04:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15233"},"modified":"2025-04-03T09:27:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:57:50","slug":"mt-semeru-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mt-semeru-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt Semeru volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Mt Semeru volcano:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an active volcano in\u00a0<strong>East Java, Indonesia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is located\u00a0<strong>in a subduction zone<\/strong>, where the\u00a0<strong>Indo-Australia plate subducts<\/strong> under the Eurasia plate.<\/li>\n<li>It is the\u00a0<strong>highest mountain<\/strong> on the island of Java.<\/li>\n<li>The name &#8220;Semeru&#8221; is derived from Meru, the central world mountain in Hinduism, or Sumeru, the abode of gods.<\/li>\n<li>Indonesia sits on the\u00a0<strong>Pacific Ring of Fire<\/strong>, where the meeting of continental plates causes high volcanic and seismic activity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Key points about Pacific Ring of Fire<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It also known as the\u00a0<strong>Circum-Pacific Beltis<\/strong> a path along\u00a0<strong>the Pacific Ocean<\/strong> characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes.<\/li>\n<li>Its length is approximately 40,000 kilometres.<\/li>\n<li>It traces boundaries between several tectonic plates\u2014including\u00a0<strong>the Pacific, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Indian-Australian, Nazca, North American, and Philippine Plates<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the subduction zone?<\/h3>\n<p>A subduction zone is a geological boundary where two tectonic plates converge, and one plate is forced beneath the other into the Earth&#8217;s mantle. Subduction zones are some of the most geologically active and dynamic regions on the planet and are associated with various geological phenomena, including earthquakes, volcanic activity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/news\/world\/mt-semeru-volcano-erupts-in-indonesia-546933\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Mt. Semeru volcano erupts in Indonesia.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mt Semeru volcano is located in a subduction zone, where the Indo-Australian plate subducts under the Eurasian plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}