{"id":16757,"date":"2014-09-27T12:59:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T12:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=16757"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:03:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:03:11","slug":"eruption-of-the-mount-ontake-volcano-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/16757","title":{"rendered":"Eruption of the Mount Ontake volcano in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/09\/140927-28-29_Mount_Ontake_Japan_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/09\/140927-28-29_Mount_Ontake_Japan_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color images on 27, 28, and 29 September\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color images on 27, 28, and 29 September<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Mount Ontake volcano erupted on the main Japanese island of Honshu around 02:52 UTC (11:52 AM local time) on 27 September 2014. A sequence of three daily (27, 28, and 29 September) Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images from the <a title=\"SSEC RealEarth web map server\" href=\"http:\/\/wms.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>SSEC RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> web map server<em> <strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the volcanic plume drifting eastward then southeastward during that period<em>. <\/em>The ash plume disrupted air travel in some parts of Japan<em>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A comparison of p<em>re-eruption<\/em> (22 September) and<em> post-eruption<\/em> (28 September) VIIRS true-color images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the light gray signature of thick volcanic ash covering the region around the summit of Mount Ontake. There was also a narrow volcanic plume streaming southeastward on the 28 September image.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/09\/140922_vs_28_Mount_Ontake_Japan_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/09\/140922_vs_28_Mount_Ontake_Japan_anim.gif\" alt=\"22 September vs 28 September VIIRS true-color images\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">22 September vs 28 September VIIRS true-color images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mount Ontake volcano erupted on the main Japanese island of Honshu around 02:52 UTC (11:52 AM local time) on 27 September 2014. A sequence of three daily (27, 28, and 29 September) Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images from the SSEC RealEarth web map server (above) showed the volcanic plume drifting eastward then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":16763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,49,48,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-earth","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs","category-volcanic-activity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16757"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16762,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16757\/revisions\/16762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}