Posted on 04/17/2024 8:25:09 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A volcano erupted several times in Indonesia's outermost region Wednesday, with authorities raising the alert level to its highest point after the dome spewed a column of smoke more than a mile into the sky and forced hundreds to evacuate.
Mount Ruang, a stratovolcano in North Sulawesi Province, first erupted at 9:45 pm on Tuesday (1345 GMT) and four times throughout Wednesday, the country's volcanology agency said.
The alert level for the volcano, which has a peak of 725 meters above sea level, was then raised on Wednesday evening from three to four, the highest possible level in the four-tiered system.
"Based on the result of visual and instrumental observation that showed an increase in volcanic activity, Mount Ruang's level was raised from Level 3 to Level 4," Hendra Gunawan, head of Indonesia's volcanology agency said in a statement late Wednesday.
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Indeed, that does happen now and again. It happened at Krakatao a few years ago, where, without any significant volcanic activity, part of the island collapsed into the sea and a local tsunami did considerable damage along the Java coast.
I have two houses in Sulawesi, but in the south at Pare Pare and Awan Rantekarua, Toraja. I rarely go to the north side.
There should laws against this to protect the planet
That is eases my worries. I thought the doomsday clock just lost a year or 2. Thank you.
That's what they said about Mt. Vesuvius.
Newsprint? What is that?
Have the experts calculated the amount of CO2 released and how Trump is responsible?
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