{"id":96738,"date":"2020-06-24T12:29:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T12:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=96738"},"modified":"2020-06-24T12:29:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T12:29:39","slug":"mount-merapi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/mount-merapi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Merapi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Mount Merapi which got erupted recently is located in which country?<br><\/strong>(a) Indonesia<br>(b) Phillipines<br>(c) Italy<br>(d) Colombia<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 21 June 2020,Indonesia\u2019s most active volcano, Mount Merapi has erupted fuming ash and smoke more than three miles into the sky.<\/li><li>Mount Merapi is an active stratovolcano located on the border between Central Java and Yogyakarta provinces, Indonesia.<\/li><li>A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava, tephra, pumice and ash.<\/li><li>Merapi is the most active volcano in Indonesia and has erupted regularly since 1548.<\/li><li>Its last major eruption in 2010 killed 347 people.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Volcano:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.<\/li><li>Volcanoes are classified into three distinct groups: dormant, extinct and active.<\/li><li>Dormant volcanoes are those who haven\u2019t erupted in a long time, but they could again.Extinct volcanoes have erupted for thousands of years and might be dead.<\/li><li>Active volcanoes, on the other hand,are those currently erupting or showing signs of unrest. Example, Stromboli in Italy known as the &#8220;Lighthouse of the Mediterranean&#8221;.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By-Amar Mani Upadhyay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/indonesias-merapi-volcano-ejects-towering-column-of-ash\/article24054071.ece\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/indonesias-merapi-volcano-ejects-towering-column-of-ash\/article24054071.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Mount Merapi which got erupted recently is located in which country?(a) Indonesia(b) Phillipines(c) Italy(d) ColombiaAnswer: (a)Related facts: On 21 June 2020,Indonesia\u2019s most active volcano, Mount Merapi has erupted fuming ash and smoke more than three miles into the sky. Mount Merapi is an active stratovolcano located on the border between Central Java and Yogyakarta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":96739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}