{"id":15652,"date":"2016-12-28T09:02:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T17:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-volcano-erupts-sends-up-ash-cloud\/"},"modified":"2016-12-28T09:02:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T17:02:53","slug":"alaska-volcano-erupts-sends-up-ash-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-volcano-erupts-sends-up-ash-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska volcano erupts, sends up ash cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 A volcano in Alaska\u2019s Aleutian Islands has erupted again.<\/p>\n<p>The Alaska Volcano Observatory says an eruption that produced ash started just after 2 p.m. Monday at Bogoslof volcano about 850 miles southwest of Anchorage.<\/p>\n<p>The observatory raised the aviation alert level from a watch to a warning. Temperatures recorded on cloud tops suggested an ash cloud that reached 30,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning and seismic data signaled the eruption.<\/p>\n<p>The volcano erupted three times last week, with one ash cloud reaching 35,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Unalaska Island is about 35 miles southeast of the volcano. The city of Unalaska and the port of Dutch Harbor on the island\u2019s east side are about 61 miles away.<\/p>\n<p>Observatory scientist in charge Michelle Coombs says southwest winds should push the ash cloud north of Unalaska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 A volcano in Alaska\u2019s Aleutian Islands has erupted again. The Alaska Volcano Observatory says an eruption that produced ash started just after 2 p.m. Monday at Bogoslof volcano about 850 miles southwest of Anchorage. The observatory raised the aviation alert level from a watch to a warning. Temperatures recorded on cloud tops suggested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15652"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}