{"id":5065,"date":"2013-04-09T09:47:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T21:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2013-04-09T14:48:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T20:48:21","slug":"blood-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5065","title":{"rendered":"Blood of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eugene.kaspersky.com\/files\/2013\/04\/tolbachik-eruption-volcano-lava-kamchatka02.jpg\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/eugene.kaspersky.com\/2013\/04\/09\/eugene-kaspersky-tolbachik-volcano-eruption-kamchatka\/\">Eugene Kaspersky<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Here we are, April, on the Kamchatka Peninsula, checking out the Tolbachik volcano erupting \u2013 on a long-weekend trip. It\u2019s a long way to go for a long weekend, but for me and crew \u2013 it sure was worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Straight to the (lava) chase\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Down fields of freshly cooled (black) lava here flow crackling (bright red) liquid lava streams around 10 meters (30 feet) in width. Sometimes the lava flows get blocked, forming red hot lava lakes. The lava is stodgy, viscous, cloggy, plodding and\u2026 awesome! Sometimes it comes up against large rocky growths and finds itself new channels to creep along. Other times it hides under an outer shell that has cooled, and then appears again out of its \u2018tunnel\u2019 on to the surface. The meandering red snakes of lava are really quite creepy (he, hey!) \u2013 how they form waterfalls here, form islands of black there\u2026 Then the red stuff rolls down further, where it thickens and congeals into freaky little hills, which themselves slowly continue to move down further, nudged on by new flows of lava.<\/p>\n<p>The scene is just hypnotic; especially at night when the incandescent lava and red hot rocks are much brighter. Mostly black by day, at night the lava fields are crisscrossed with bright red rivers and studded with similarly bright red spots.<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Kaspersky: Here we are, April, on the Kamchatka Peninsula, checking out the Tolbachik volcano erupting \u2013 on a long-weekend trip. It\u2019s a long way to go for a long weekend, but for me and crew \u2013 it sure was worth it. Straight to the (lava) chase\u2026 Down fields of freshly cooled (black) lava here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5070,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions\/5070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}