{"id":5436,"date":"2025-11-20T11:08:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5436"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:08:05","slug":"mount-semeru-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mount-semeru-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"Semeru Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Semeru Volcano Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A volcano on Indonesia&#8217;s main island of Java erupted recently, throwing ash and gas kilometres into the sky and forcing officials to raise the alert status to its highest level.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Semeru Volcano<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in<\/span><b> East Java, Indonesia.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>one of the most active volcanoes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Indonesia.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At 3,676 metres (12,060 feet), it is the <\/span><b>highest peak on Java Island<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and sits on the <\/span><b>Pacific \u201cRing of Fire\u201d.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It lies at the southern end of a volcanic massif extending north to the Tengger caldera.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summit topography is complicated by the shifting of craters from NW to SE.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Semeru, <\/span><b>also known as Mahameru<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, has<\/span><b> erupted numerous times in the past 200 years, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">including a <\/span><b>deadly episode in 2021 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that killed 62 people and buried villages in hot ash.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">It is<b style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> known for its regular ash explosions <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that typically occur <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">at intervals of 10-30 minutes.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/indonesia-raises-alert-level-as-volcano-near-bali-erupts-9664496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NDTV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semeru Volcano is one of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia. Read more about Semeru Volcano, Location, Highest Peak, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":74271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,3798,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-5436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-semeru-volcano","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436","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=5436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}