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Indonesia's Mt Merapi erupts, spewing ash 6 km high:
Indonesia's Mount Merapi, one of the world's most active volcanoes, erupted twice on Sunday, sending clouds of grey ash 6,000 metres into the sky, the country's geological agency said.
The two eruptions lasted around seven minutes, according to the agency, and prompted local authorities to order residents to stay outside a three-kilometre no-go zone around the rumbling crater near Indonesia's cultural capital Yogyakarta.
The volcano had a similarly-large eruption on February 13 of this year. Eruptions there are not uncommon but it is dangerous to drop one's guard:
Mount Merapi's last major eruption in 2010 killed more than 300 people and forced the evacuation of some 280,000 residents.
It was Merapi's most powerful eruption since 1930, which killed around 1,300 people, while another explosion in 1994 took about 60 lives.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2020, @02:21PM (1 child)
When I was in Jogja, I travelled out to the countryside around Mt Merapi. It had erupted a few months back. Whole fields were covered in ash like 50 cm deep, and people were coming in pickup trucks and loading up bags of the ash. I don't remember anyone weighing bags and taking cash, I guess farmers were happy to get their fields cleared so they could plant again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @02:14AM
Let's see if I can present a picture:
Ash from Mount Merapi [imgur.com]