Lumajang:
Hundreds of Indonesians have fled their villages right after a rumbling volcano spewed hot ash thousands of metres into the air and belched lava down its crater.
Mount Semeru on Java island spouted the towering column on Tuesday, prompting a get in touch with for about 500 people today to temporarily evacuate their houses.
Footage from the scene showed dead livestock covered by pyroclastic flows — a rapidly-moving mixture of hot gas and volcanic material — as steaming debris flowed into a nearby river.
Local disaster agency chief Agus Triono warned on Wednesday that residents could nonetheless be at danger as heavy rains threatened to trigger far more volcanic flows from the nonetheless-spewing crater.
The eruption came days right after Mount Ili Lewotolok roared back to life on the far eastern finish of the archipelago nation.
Around 6,000 residents fled to shelters there right after the crater ejected a thick tower of debris 4 kilometres into the sky on Sunday, triggering a flight warning and the closure of a nearby airport.
There had been no reports of injuries or deaths.
Indonesia is property to about 130 active volcanoes due to its position on the “Ring of Fire”, a belt of tectonic plate boundaries circling the Pacific Ocean exactly where frequent seismic activity happens.
In late 2018, a volcano in the strait among Java and Sumatra islands erupted, causing an underwater landslide that unleashed a tsunami which killed far more than 400 people today.
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