{"id":1071,"date":"2016-09-30T12:34:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T16:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2016-09-30T12:47:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T16:47:47","slug":"iceland-volcano-alert-katla-yellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/iceland-volcano-alert-katla-yellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland Volcano alert &#8211; Katla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Icelandic volcano <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katla_(volcano)\"><b>Katla<\/b><\/a>\u00a0has been raised to colour code Yellow by the Icelandic met office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Katla lives beside\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2010_eruptions_of_Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull\">Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull<\/a>, the volcano that closed much of Europe\u2019s airspace for a week or so in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Colour code yellow means that there is increased activity, but no eruption \u2026 as of yet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1074\" src=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/volcano_status.png\" alt=\"volcano_status\" width=\"1300\" height=\"984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/volcano_status.png 1300w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/volcano_status-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/volcano_status-768x581.png 768w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/volcano_status-1024x775.png 1024w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/volcano_status-676x512.png 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It doesn\u2019t mean that an eruption is \u2018expected\u2019 either, but given the proximity of Katla to the site of the major eruption in 2010, there may be correlation. Icelandic scientists have also said that an eruption of Katla is overdue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">For now, keep an eye on updates at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.vedur.is\/weather\/aviation\/volcanic-hazards\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/en.vedur.is\/weather\/aviation\/volcanic-hazards\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1072\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1072\" class=\"wp-image-1072 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Katla_1918.jpg\" alt=\"katla_1918\" width=\"380\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Katla_1918.jpg 380w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Katla_1918-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katla&#8217;s last eruption photographed in 1918<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p3\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icelandic volcano Katla\u00a0has been raised to colour code Yellow by the Icelandic met office. Katla&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[658,584,657,659,354,656,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-1071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings","8":"tag-658","9":"tag-airspace","10":"tag-closure","11":"tag-eyjafjallajokull","12":"tag-iceland","13":"tag-katla","14":"tag-volcano"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}