{"id":94737,"date":"2026-10-21T23:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T15:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=94737"},"modified":"2026-10-21T23:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T15:13:12","slug":"indonesia-knew-a-volcano-was-erupting-could-it-have-prepared-better-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=94737","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia knew a volcano was erupting. Could it have prepared better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/09\/08\/8e5ac0d6-96f7-42dc-b613-74169411cf76_4414961e.jpg?itok=MCWBNCrc&amp;v=1788865399\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">The eruption of Anak Krakatoa in <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Indonesia<\/span> has tested the country\u2019s disaster preparedness, disrupting nearly 3,000 flights carrying more than 340,000 passengers as volcanic ash spread across the region.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Authorities say they are monitoring the <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">volcano<\/span>, which remains under the country\u2019s second-highest alert status. According to scientists, the event\u2019s exceptional scale makes its impact hard to anticipate.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The eruption has renewed debate on whether Indonesia\u2019s monitoring and disaster planning can be strengthened.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On Friday, the volcano, situated on the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra, started its 25-hour \u201ccontinuous\u201d eruption, according to the Geological Agency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/health-environment\/article\/3366801\/indonesia-knew-volcano-was-erupting-could-it-have-prepared-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><br \/>\n<center><script>\n  atOptions = {\n    'key' : 'ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540',\n    'format' : 'iframe',\n    'height' : 90,\n    'width' : 728,\n    'params' : {}\n  };\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highrevenueformat.com\/ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540\/invoke.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eruption of Anak Krakatoa in Indonesia has tested the country\u2019s disaster preparedness, disrupting nearly 3,000 flights carrying more than 340,000 passengers as volcanic ash&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[29689,5080,3160,15193,22743],"class_list":["post-94737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-erupting","tag-indonesia","tag-knew","tag-prepared","tag-volcano","wpcat-4840-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}