{"id":17753,"date":"2025-04-04T05:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17753"},"modified":"2025-04-05T06:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T00:55:25","slug":"mount-marapi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mount-marapi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Marapi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mount Marapi Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Indonesia&#8217;s Mount Marapi erupted recently, sending a column of ash 1.5km (4,900ft) above its peak.<\/p>\n<h2>About Mount Marapi<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>active volcano<\/strong> located in the Padang Highlands of <strong>western Sumatra, Indonesia.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>stratovolcano <\/strong>composed of layers of hardened lava, ash, and rocks from previous eruptions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>part of the Ring of Fire<\/strong>\u2014a long, horseshoe-shaped, seismically active belt that rings the Pacific Ocean.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The highest peak among several volcanoes in the highlands, Mount Marapi rises to 9,485 feet (2,891 meters) above sea level.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Its <strong>summit contains the Bancah caldera<\/strong>\u2014which has a diameter of 0.9 mile (1.4 km)\u2014and is characterized by a series of overlapping craters.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Thevolcano\u2019s deadliest single event, which resulted in the deaths of 60 people, came in 1979 after heavy rains saturated a region of loose ash (called a lahar) on the slopes that was left over from an earlier eruption.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>often confused with a similar active volcano<\/strong> called <strong>Mount Merapi<\/strong>, which is located near the center of the island of <strong>Java, Indonesia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Mount Marapi FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Where is Mount Marapi located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Mount Marapi is located in West Sumatra, Indonesia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What type of volcano is Mount Marapi?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Stratovolcano<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is the name of the caldera at Mount Marapi\u2019s summit?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Bancah Caldera<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cql6rnyqy6xo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Marapi is an active volcano in the Padang Highlands, West Sumatra, Indonesia, known for its eruptions, scenic landscapes, and challenging hiking trails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17753","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\/17753","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=17753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}