{"id":63729,"date":"2024-05-01T19:21:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T10:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/may\/01\/indonesia-volcano-eruption-thousands-evacuated-ash-spread-as-far-as-malaysia-video"},"modified":"2024-05-01T19:21:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T10:21:01","slug":"indonesia-thousands-evacuated-as-volcano-eruption-spreads-ash-as-far-as-malaysia-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63729","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia: thousands evacuated as volcano eruption spreads ash as far as Malaysia \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eruptions at a remote Indonesian volcano have forced more than half a dozen airports to close, with ash spreading as far as Malaysia, according to officials, while authorities rushed to evacuate thousands <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/20\/indonesia-volcano-thousands-evacuated-amid-spreading-ash-and-tsunami-fears\">due to tsunami fears<\/a>. Mount Ruang erupted three times on Tuesday, spewing lava and ash more than 5km (three miles) into the sky and forcing authorities to issue evacuation orders for 12,000 people. A rescue ship and a warship were dispatched to help move people from neighbouring Tagulandang island north to Siau island because of fears parts of the volcano would fall into the sea, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/17\/indonesian-volcano-mount-ruang-erupts-mile-high-column-smoke\">potentially causing a tsunami<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/may\/01\/indonesia-volcano-eruption-tsunami-fears-mount-ruang-vola-malaysia-ash\">Indonesia volcano eruption spreads ash to Malaysia and shuts airports<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/may\/01\/indonesia-volcano-eruption-thousands-evacuated-ash-spread-as-far-as-malaysia-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eruptions at a remote Indonesian volcano have forced more than half a dozen airports to close, with ash spreading as far as Malaysia, according to officials, while authorities rushed to evacuate thousands due to tsunami fears. Mount Ruang erupted three&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156,899],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-volcanoes"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63730,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63729\/revisions\/63730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}