{"id":16891,"date":"2023-11-10T03:49:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16891"},"modified":"2025-04-05T00:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T19:14:03","slug":"mount-st-helens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mount-st-helens\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount St Helens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Mount St Helens<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a volcanic peak in the\u00a0Cascade Range of southwestern Washington, United States of America.<\/li>\n<li>It is part of the larger\u00a0Pacific Ring of Fire.<\/li>\n<li>The volcano was formed during four eruptive stages beginning about 275,000 years ago and has been the most active volcano in the Cascade Range during the Holocene.<\/li>\n<li>Its eruption on May 18, 1980, was one of the greatest volcanic explosions ever recorded in North America.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key points about Pacific Ring of Fire<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as\u00a0the Circum-Pacific Belt is a path along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes.<\/li>\n<li>Its length is approximately 40,000 kilometres (24,900 miles).<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0traces boundaries between several tectonic plates\u2014including the Pacific, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Indian-Australian, Nazca, North American, and Philippine Plates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Tectonic plates?<\/h3>\n<p>These are large pieces of the Earth&#8217;s lithosphere (the rigid outer layer of the Earth) that fit together like a puzzle, covering the entire surface of the planet. These plates are constantly moving, albeit very slowly, and their interactions at plate boundaries are responsible for a variety of geological phenomena, including earthquakes, volcanic activity, and the creation of mountain ranges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/science\/mount-st-helens-more-than-400-earthquakes-recorded-since-mid-july-it-is-a-threat-656931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Mount St Helens: More than 400 earthquakes recorded since mid-July. It is a threat?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount St Helens is a volcanic peak in the Cascade Range of southwestern Washington, United States of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16891","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\/16891","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=16891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}