{"id":666868,"date":"2026-01-01T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/666868\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:08:11","slug":"frances-reunion-warns-of-probable-or-imminent-volcanic-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/666868\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s Reunion warns of &#8216;probable or imminent&#8217; volcanic eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s Reunion island warned early Thursday of the \u201cprobable or imminent eruption\u201d of its Piton de la Fournaise volcano, one of the most active in the world.<\/p>\n<p>All access to the volcano has been closed after the The Piton de la Fournaise Observatory detected a \u201cseismic crisis\u201d starting at around 4:47 am (0047 GMT), the island\u2019s prefecture said on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis indicates that magma is leaving the magmatic reservoir and propagating toward the surface,\u201d the observatory said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The prefecture declared an Alert Level 1, warning on X that an eruption is \u201cprobable or imminent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It also ordered the closure of the volcano\u2019s caldera as of 6:00 am, January 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Piton de la Fournaise, situated in an uninhabited area in the southeast of the island, has erupted around 20 times over the last decade, and its violent bursts of activity often prompt stunning lava flows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Reunion island warned early Thursday of the \u201cprobable or imminent eruption\u201d of its Piton de la Fournaise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,522,197535,2970],"class_list":{"0":"post-666868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-international","12":"tag-mna","13":"tag-uncategorized"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115820003645300953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}