{"id":14225,"date":"2015-09-05T13:51:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T18:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=14225"},"modified":"2015-09-18T12:06:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T17:06:45","slug":"above-the-hot-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/above-the-hot-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Above the hot zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

I expected that at least one of the many active volcanoes on caldera-ridden<\/a> Kyushu would land on the New Decade Volcano Program at Volcano Caf\u00e9, though I wasn’t sure which it would be: Aira, Aso, or one of the less-publicized ones. This weekend NDVP #4 turned out to be the Aso Caldera<\/a> and, yes, it is potentially extremely nightmarish.<\/p>\n

There are three more to go. From the comments to the Caf\u00e9 post:<\/p>\n

BillG: So this is #4\u2026. I can\u2019t imagine there are three worse scenarios..<\/p>\n

Henrik: Trust me Bill, there are. One marginally more so, one decidedly worse and the final one so utterly mind-blowing that eventually Hollywood will make a blockbuster movie of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I would guess that one of those three is either Campi Flegrei<\/a> or Vesuvius<\/a>; the other two, I have no idea. I note that five of the volcanoes announced in the NDVP so far are in Asia and none in South America, and there are a lot of interesting mountains and lakes in Central and South America.<\/p>\n

You can watch the Nakadake crater at Aso at the JMA site<\/a>. The link to the camera is highlighted here (“Aso grass Chisato,” according to Giggle Translate):<\/p>\n

\"Aso<\/a><\/p>\n

You can usually see a plume of steam and gasses when the weather is clear, and occasionally some incandescence.<\/p>\n

Update (9\/13\/15): Aso had a bit of a cough today<\/a> (or tomorrow, depending on which side of the International Date Line you’re on).<\/p>\n

Update II (9\/18\/15): … and coming in at #3, it’s Campi Flegrei<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I expected that at least one of the many active volcanoes on caldera-ridden Kyushu would land on the New Decade Volcano Program at Volcano Caf\u00e9, though I wasn’t sure which it would be: Aira, Aso, or one of the less-publicized ones. This weekend NDVP #4 turned out to be the Aso Caldera and, yes, it … Continue reading “Above the hot zone”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-3Hr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14225"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14389,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225\/revisions\/14389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}