{"id":4913,"date":"2017-11-27T14:31:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T22:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=4913"},"modified":"2017-11-27T14:32:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T22:32:06","slug":"bali-volcano-mount-agung-erupts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=4913","title":{"rendered":"Bali Mount Agung volcano erupts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The volcano alert for Bali&#8217;s Mount Agung has been raised to its the highest level, prompting the closure of the tourist island&#8217;s main airport<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/advice\/everything-travellers-need-to-know-about-mount-agung\/\">\u00a0amid fears of an imminent\u00a0major eruption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At least 445 flights were disrupted after the Indonesian volcano belched columns of ash into the sky, leaving 59,000\u00a0tourists stranded.<\/p>\n<p data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\">The National Disaster Mitigation Agency said Bali&#8217;s international airport had closed for 24 hours and authorities would consider reopening it on Tuesday after evaluating the situation.\u00a0\u00a0The small international airport on the neighbouring island of Lombok had already been closed on Sunday after\u00a0the plumes of ash had drifted east.<\/p>\n<div class=\"OUTBRAIN\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/11\/27\/mount-agung-bali-volcano-erupts-airport-closure-causes-chaos\/\" data-widget-id=\"AR_39\" data-ob-=\"\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Continuous ash puffs are sometimes accompanied by explosive eruptions accompanied by a weak sound of boom which sounds up to\u00a012 km from thethe summit,&#8221; the National Board for Disaster Management wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rays of fire are increasingly observed in at night. This indicates<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/09\/26\/balis-mt-agung-volcano-could-erupt-minute-75000-flee\/\">the potential for a larger eruption is imminent<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The volcano alert for Bali&#8217;s Mount&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4916,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4913\/revisions\/4916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}