{"id":543510,"date":"2010-04-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/volcanoes_and_air_travel"},"modified":"2010-04-26T09:02:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:02:47","slug":"volcanoes-and-air-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/543510","title":{"rendered":"Volcanoes and Air Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 10px 0px; width: 324px; height: 251px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/resource\/icelandvolcanoplume.jpg\" alt=\"Iceland Volcano Plume\" \/>I don&#8217;t remember those baking soda and vinegar volcano eruptions in elementary school lasting quite this long. <\/p>\n<p>As you probably already know, the <a href=\"http:\/\/volcanoes.usgs.gov\/publications\/2010\/iceland.php\" title=\"USGS Eyjafjallajoku Webpage\">recent eruptions at Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull<\/a> have disrupted travelers around the world over the last couple of weeks. On Friday the ash from the eruptions caused airport <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/WORLD\/europe\/04\/22\/iceland.airport.closures\/\" title=\"CNN.com article\">closures in Iceland<\/a>, Sweden and Norway. Although flights are leaving open airports in Europe, they are still canceled sporadically. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/\" title=\"U.S.GS\">United States<br \/>\nGeological Survey<\/a> explains why <a href=\"http:\/\/volcanoes.usgs.gov\/hazards\/tephra\/ashandaircraft.php\" title=\"Volcanic Ash and Airplanes\">volcanic ash is dangerous to planes<\/a> and Iceland&#8217;s president has stated that these eruptions could continue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelweekly.co.uk\/Articles\/2010\/04\/20\/33545\/icelandic-president-warns-of-a-century-of-eruptions.html\" title=\"Iceland eruptions\">for a long time<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I want to give you <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.usa.gov\/cgi-bin\/gsa_ict.cfg\/php\/enduser\/std_adp.php?p_faqid=8721&amp;p_created=1271712857&amp;p_sid=-tm9K7-j&amp;p_accessibility=0&amp;p_redirect=&amp;p_lva=&amp;p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MTMsMTMmcF9wcm9kcz0wJnBfY2F0cz0mcF9wdj0mcF9jdj0mcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD12b2xjYW5v&amp;p_li=&amp;p_topview=1\" title=\"Travel Disruptions\">some resources<\/a> so if your travel is affected by the eruptions, you&#8217;ll have some places to turn. If you are in Europe, the U.S. Department of State has <a title=\"U.S. DOS\" href=\"http:\/\/travel.state.gov\/travel\/travel_4808.html\">created a webpage<\/a> to aid U.S. citizens who have flight cancellations. If you are a foreign national visiting the U.S. and are unable to get back home, here is how you go about <a title=\"Extend your stay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/portal\/site\/uscis\/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a\/?vgnextoid=cab23e4d77d73210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&amp;vgnextchannel=cab23e4d77d73210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD\">legally extending your stay<\/a>. If you are just interested in active volcanoes, the USGS <a href=\"http:\/\/volcanoes.usgs.gov\/\" title=\"USGS volcano page\">has you covered<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have you been affected by the Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull eruptions?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember those baking soda and vinegar volcano eruptions in elementary school lasting quite this long. As you probably already know, the recent eruptions at Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull have disrupted travelers around the world over the last couple of weeks. On Friday the ash from the eruptions caused airport closures in Iceland, Sweden and Norway. Although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}