{"id":3016,"date":"2011-10-28T08:44:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T14:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2011-10-28T08:44:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T14:44:55","slug":"rapidly-inflating-volcano-creates-growing-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=3016","title":{"rendered":"Rapidly Inflating Volcano Creates Growing Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rapidly Inflating Volcano Creates Growing Mystery: <\/strong>It&#8217;s CSI:\u00a0  Geology as a group of scientists study a mysterious and rapidly  inflating South American volcano.\u00a0 Researchers from several universities  are using a suite of tools to piece together the restive peak&#8217;s past in  order to understand what it is doing right now.<\/p>\n<p>Uturuncu is a nearly 20,000-foot high volcano in southwest Bolivia  and is inflating at an astonishing speed.\u00a0 Researchers realized about 5  years ago that the area is rising steadily, and is one of the fastest  uplifting volcanic areas on Earth.\u00a0 The magma beneath the volcano is  growing at 27 cubic feet per second.<\/p>\n<p>Uturuncu is surrounded by one of the densest concentrations of  supervolcanoes on the planet, all of which fell silent some one million  years ago.\u00a0\u00a0 The most recent supervolcano eruption happened about 74,000  years ago in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapidly Inflating Volcano Creates Growing Mystery: It&#8217;s CSI:\u00a0 Geology as a group of scientists study a mysterious and rapidly inflating South American volcano.\u00a0 Researchers from several universities are using a suite of tools to piece together the restive peak&#8217;s past in order to understand what it is doing right now. Uturuncu is a nearly 20,000-foot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general_news","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}