Scientists are monitoring Mount Ruapehu after an increase in volcanic activity has been detected.<\/p>\n
It is in a state of minor unrest, with the constant tremor beneath the volcano having increased from a weak to moderate level.<\/p>\n
Geologist Michael Rosenberg said it could be an early warning sign of an eruption.<\/p>\n
There had been a gradual increase in the volcanic tremor since 22 July, Rosenberg said, which had reached a level that had not been recorded in at least two years.<\/p>\n
“It doesn’t, by itself, mean that the volcano is going to erupt.<\/p>\n
“It’s more like a possible early warning signal.”<\/p>\n
Rosenberg said there had been a minimal change in temperature at Crater Lake, or Te Wai \u0101-moe, which remained stable.<\/p>\n
The output of gas emissions, such as volcanic sulphur dioxide and hydrogen sulphide, were still at a low-to-moderate amount.<\/p>\n
Rosenberg said the tremor was also within the range expected during minor unrest.<\/p>\n
He said there was no link between New Zealand’s heightened seismic activity, and an increase in the level of volcanic tremor beneath Mount Ruapehu.<\/p>\n
The Volcanic Alert Level was at one, and the Aviation Colour Code was green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists are monitoring Mount Ruapehu after an increase in volcanic activity has been detected. It is in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-557967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}