{"id":2377,"date":"2016-12-23T09:03:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T17:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/for-2nd-day-alaska-volcano-eruption-sparks-aviation-alert\/"},"modified":"2016-12-23T09:03:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T17:03:51","slug":"for-2nd-day-alaska-volcano-eruption-sparks-aviation-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/for-2nd-day-alaska-volcano-eruption-sparks-aviation-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"For 2nd day, Alaska volcano eruption sparks aviation alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second straight day, the Alaska Volcano Observatory issued its highest alert level for aviation when a volcano erupted with a towering ash cloud in the Aleutian Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Observatory volcanologist Robert McGimsey says Wednesday afternoon\u2019s eruption of the Bogoslof volcano was \u201calmost a carbon copy\u201d of an eruption 24 hours earlier.<\/p>\n<p>He tells The Associated Press that both eruptions prompted the highest alert level and both were downgraded hours after the events.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s eruption sent ash and steam 34,000 feet into the air, while Wednesday burst went 1,000 feet higher. Officials say both volcanic explosions were also short-lived.<\/p>\n<p>The observatory said early Thursday that it was reducing the alert level because there had been no recent volcano activity.<\/p>\n<p>The volcano is located on an island of the same name in the Bering Sea about 850 miles southwest of Anchorage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second straight day, the Alaska Volcano Observatory issued its highest alert level for aviation when a volcano erupted with a towering ash cloud in the Aleutian Islands. Observatory volcanologist Robert McGimsey says Wednesday afternoon\u2019s eruption of the Bogoslof volcano was \u201calmost a carbon copy\u201d of an eruption 24 hours earlier. He tells The [&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-2377","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\/2377","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=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}