Jakarta, Indonesia (AP) – Lewotbi mountain glitterone of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes, erupting for the second day in a row, sending rows of volcanic material and ashes up to 18 kilometers (11 miles) into the sky early on Saturday, covering the village with debris. No casualties were reported immediately.
On Friday evening, another eruption sent clouds of ashes up to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) high, illuminating the night sky with gleaming lava and lightning. The two eruptions took place in less than five hours.
The Geological Agency of Indonesia recorded an avalanche of burnt gas clouds mixed with rocks and lava traveling up to 5 km (3 miles) from the mountain slopes. The drone observations showed deep movement of the magma, causing tremors registered on earthquake monitors.
Volcanic material, including hot, thumb-sized gravel, was thrown up to eight kilometers (5 miles) from the crater, covering nearby villages and towns with thick volcanic residue, the agency said. It urged residents to be vigilant about heavy rain that could cause lava flows in the river that began with the volcano.
Saturday’s eruption was one of Indonesia’s biggest since 2010 when Mount Merapi, the country’s most unstable volcano, erupted on the densely packed Java island. The eruption killed more than 350 people and forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate.
Also, I came less than a month later A big eruption On July 7th, dozens of flights were forced to delay or cancel at Bali’s Nurah Rai Airport, covering roads and rice fields with thick grey mud and rock.
Lewotobi Laki Laki, a 1,584-meter (5,197 feet) volcano on the remote island of Flores, is at its highest alert level since It exploded on June 18thand as eruptions became more frequent, the exclusion zone doubled to a radius (4.3 miles) of the radius (4.3 miles).
The Indonesian government permanently relocated thousands of residents after a series of eruptions were killed there. Destroyed nine people and thousands of homes November.
Indonesia is an archipelago of over 280 million people who are frequently seismic. There are 120 active volcanoes and sit along the Ring of Fire, a series of horseshoe-shaped seismic fault lines surrounding the Pacific Basin.
