Indonesian volcano unleashes river of lava in new eruption

By: AP | Yogyakarta (indonesia) |

January 27, 2021 12:19:41 pm

Indonesia’s most energetic volcano erupted Wednesday with a river of lava and searing gasoline clouds flowing 1,500 meters (4,900 toes) down its slopes.
It was the Mount Merapi’s longest lava move since authorities raised the risky volcano’s hazard degree in November, stated Hanik Humaida, the top of Yogyakarta’s Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center.
Hot cloud of volcanic supplies run down the slope of Mount Merapi throughout an eruption in Sleman, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (AP Photo)
The alert degree was being maintained for now on the second-highest degree, she stated, and folks ought to keep out of the present 5-kilometer (3-mile) hazard zone across the crater because the native administrations in Central Java and Yogyakarta provinces carefully monitor the scenario.
The 2,968-meter (9,737-foot) volcano is on the densely populated island of Java and close to the traditional metropolis of Yogyakarta. It is probably the most energetic of dozens of Indonesian volcanoes and has repeatedly erupted with lava and gasoline clouds lately.

Merapi’s final main eruption in 2010 killed 347 individuals.

Indonesia, an archipelago of 270 million individuals, is liable to earthquakes and volcanic exercise as a result of it sits alongside the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped sequence of seismic fault strains across the ocean.