{"id":83600,"date":"2026-01-21T13:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=83600"},"modified":"2026-01-21T15:33:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:03:53","slug":"mount-aso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mount-aso\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Aso"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Mount Aso Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Authorities recently initiated an extensive search operation after a helicopter vanished while flying near a &#8216;highly active&#8217; Mount Aso volcano in Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Mount Aso<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in Kumamoto-ken (prefecture), Kyushu, <\/span><b>Japan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, rising to an elevation of 1,592 meters.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>largest active volcano in Japan.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has the <\/span><b>largest active crater in the world,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> measuring 114 km in circumference, 27 km from north to south, and 16 km from east to west.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ong-valley-caldera\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Caldera <\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(bowl-shaped volcanic depression) <\/span><b>marks the original crater<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>contains <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>active volcano of Naka-dake<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and numerous hot springs.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>crater is inhabited<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and i<\/span><b>s crossed by roads and railways.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its mountain pastures are used for cattle raising and dairy farming.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The volcano is the <\/span><b>central feature of Aso-Kuju National Park<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The volcano has been <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">erupting sporadically for decades, most recently in 2021.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/helicopter-disappears-after-flying-close-to-a-highly-active-volcano-in-japan\/ar-AA1Uz4Um\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MSN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Aso is located in Kumamoto-ken (prefecture), Kyushu, Japan, rising to an elevation of 1,592 meters. Read more about Mount Aso, Location, Elevation, Area, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":83565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4859,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-83600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-mount-aso","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","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\/83600","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}