{"id":88026,"date":"2026-02-16T16:36:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=88026"},"modified":"2026-02-16T16:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:17:15","slug":"piton-de-la-fournaise-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/piton-de-la-fournaise-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"Piton de la Fournaise Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Piton de la Fournaise Volcano Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Piton de la Fournaise volcano on Reunion Island erupted for the second time this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Piton de la Fournaise Volcano<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It occupies the <\/span><b>east-southeastern<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> end <\/span><b>of <\/b><b>French<\/b><b> Island La<\/b> <b>R\u00e9union<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the western <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-ocean\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Indian Ocean<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Type:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a massive <\/span><b>basaltic shield volcano.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is built on the flank of the <\/span><b>larger and older Piton des Neiges volcano<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> whose early activity was basaltic but ended with eruption of differentiated alkaline lavas.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is one of the <\/span><b>most active volcanoes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is in a <\/span><b>phase of frequent but short-lived eruptions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that start with lava fountains and produce large lava flows.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Status:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is around 500,000 years old and since 2010, it has been a member of the prestigious club of natural treasures <\/span><b>listed as World Heritage sites by UNESCO.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Key Facts about Shield Volcano<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are the <\/span><b>largest volcanoes on Earth.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They <\/span><b>do not form soaring mountains<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with conical peaks like composite volcanoes. Instead, they are broad volcanoes with gentle slopes.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are <\/span><b>almost exclusively basalt<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a type of lava that is very fluid when erupted.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because basalt has a low viscosity, it can flow on the surface better. So, when these types of volcanoes erupt, lava flows outwards at large distances.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They <\/span><b>are built by repeated eruptions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that occurred intermittently over vast periods of time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Hawaiian shield volcanoes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are the most famous examples.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/2026\/02\/14\/second-eruption-follows-january-unrest-at-piton-de-la-fournaise-la-reunion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watchers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piton de la Fournaise Volcano occupies the east-southeastern end of French Island La R\u00e9union in the western Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":88010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5460,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-88026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-piton-de-la-fournaise-volcano","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\/88026","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88026"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88125,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88026\/revisions\/88125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}