{"id":521504,"date":"2026-08-14T09:41:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/japan-raises-alert-around-mount-aso-volcano-following-increase-in-tremors\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:41:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:41:36","slug":"japan-raises-alert-around-mount-aso-volcano-following-increase-in-tremors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/japan-raises-alert-around-mount-aso-volcano-following-increase-in-tremors\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan raises alert around Mount Aso volcano following increase in tremors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tokyo<\/strong>.- The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) raised <strong>the volcanic alert for Mount Aso<\/strong> this Friday, in southwestern Japan, after detecting an <strong>increase in tremors at the volcano<\/strong> in recent days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Level 3 alert<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state agency declared <strong>volcanic alert level three, out of a maximum of five,<\/strong> which restricts access to the mountain due to the <strong>risk of volcanic rock ejection<\/strong> and pyroclastic flows within a two-kilometer radius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/tag\/que-deja-heridos-en-taiwan-y-japon\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"56094\">that leaves injured in Taiwan and Japan<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The increase in tremors began on Wednesday afternoon<\/strong>&nbsp;and subsequent field studies confirmed an increase in the amount of volcanic gas released, which is why the <strong>JMA<\/strong> warned of the possibility of an eruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More tremors and gas emission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the issuance of the alert, the executive of Prime Minister <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/tag\/sanae-takaichi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanae Takaichi<\/a><\/strong> announced the creation of an information office regarding volcanic activity at Mount <strong>Aso<\/strong> to facilitate communication between government agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mount <strong>Aso<\/strong>, nearly <strong>1,600 meters high<\/strong>, is located in <strong>Kumamoto<\/strong> prefecture, in a sparsely populated area within a national park on the island of <strong>Kyushu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Japan<\/strong> is located on the <strong>Pacific<\/strong> Ring of Fire and has about 110 active volcanoes in its territory, according to the <strong>JMA<\/strong> definition, which considers any volcano that <strong>&#8220;has erupted in the last 10,000 years<\/strong> or where fumaroles have been recorded recently&#8221; to be &#8220;active&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo.- The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) raised the volcanic alert for Mount Aso this Friday, in southwestern Japan, after detecting an increase in tremors at the volcano in recent days. Level 3 alert The state agency declared volcanic alert level three, out of a maximum of five, which restricts access to the mountain due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":521505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[43601,44182,41116,40853,44599],"class_list":["post-521504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-breakingnews","tag-cover","tag-japan","tag-thetruthnewspaper","tag-volcano"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2bFm","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Plantilla-para-portal-2026-08-14T093759.296.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Plantilla-para-portal-2026-08-14T093759.296.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}