{"id":45946,"date":"2025-04-23T15:36:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=45946"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T09:39:30","slug":"poas-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/poas-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"Poas Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Poas Volcano Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Po\u00e1s volcano, one of Costa Rica&#8217;s most popular tourist attractions, erupted recently.<\/p>\n<h2>About Poas Volcano<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Po\u00e1s is one of\u00a0<strong>Costa Rica&#8217;s most active volcanoes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The volcano is located within the\u00a0<strong>Poas Volcano National Park.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a<strong>\u00a0composite stratovolcano<\/strong>\u00a0with an irregular complex form and a basal area of about 400 sq.km.<\/li>\n<li>It rises to 2,708 metres above sea level.<\/li>\n<li>It has been\u00a0<strong>formed from adjoining eruptive centres<\/strong>\u00a0with large collapse craters.<\/li>\n<li>Its\u00a0<strong>main crater\u00a0<\/strong>is about 1.5 km wide and 300 meters deep\u2014<strong>one of the largest active craters<\/strong>\u00a0in the world.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Since 1989<\/strong>, it has markedly increased the\u00a0<strong>emission of gases causing acid rain phenomena\u00a0<\/strong>that have damaged the flora in some sectors of the Park and surrounding agricultural plantations to the area.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Throughout 2024,\u00a0<\/strong>the v<strong>olcano\u2019s crater lake has been drying up, triggering ash-producing eruptions<\/strong>\u00a0and releasing\u00a0<strong>increased gas levels<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Small explosions ejecting rocks<\/strong>\u00a0have also occurred, and the drying process continues.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/weather\/topstories\/po%C3%A1s-volcano-eruption-sends-3-km-high-ash-plume-over-costa-rica\/vi-AA1Dmla6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MSN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover Po\u00e1s Volcano, one of Costa Rica&#8217;s most active and stunning volcanoes, known for its massive crater, steaming vents, and breathtaking views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[221,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-45946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-poas-volcano","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45946","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}