{"id":129417,"date":"2026-01-24T11:02:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kws-debunks-volcanic-activity-reports-on-mt-longonot\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:02:43","slug":"kws-debunks-volcanic-activity-reports-on-mt-longonot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kws-debunks-volcanic-activity-reports-on-mt-longonot\/","title":{"rendered":"KWS Debunks Volcanic Activity Reports on Mt Longonot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 24 \u2014 The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has dismissed online reports suggesting volcanic activity at Mt Longonot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on its social media platforms, KWS said the incident in question was a wildfire that originated on adjacent community land and is suspected to have been caused by land-clearing activities.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, which spread into parts of Mt Longonot National Park, was swiftly contained through the joint efforts of KWS rangers, community guides, and local residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA wildfire broke out on January 21, 2026, originating from community land and is suspected to be linked to land-clearing activities,\u201d KWS said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish to inform the public that there is no volcanic activity or eruption associated with the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mt Longonot is a stratovolcano with a large 8-by-12-kilometre caldera formed by past eruptions of trachytic lava.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s Global Volcanism Program, Mt Longonot is believed to have last erupted in the 1860s. <\/p>\n<p>Periodic geodetic activity recorded between 2004 and 2006, however, indicates the presence of active magmatic systems beneath the volcano.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 24 \u2014 The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has dismissed online reports suggesting volcanic activity at Mt Longonot. In a statement issued on its social media platforms, KWS said the incident in question was a wildfire that originated on adjacent community land and is suspected to have been caused by land-clearing activities. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}