Posted on 11/06/2020 3:19:50 PM PST by BenLurkin
Indonesian authorities raised the danger level for the volatile Mount Merapi volcano on the densely populated island of Java on Thursday and ordered a halt to tourism and mining activities.
Indonesia’s geological agency raised Merapi’s alert level, which had been at the third-highest level since it began erupting last year, to the second-highest level after sensors picked up increasing activity.
Its last major eruption in 2010 killed 347 people and caused the evacuation of 20,000 villagers.
The 2,968-meter (9,737-foot) mountain is about 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the Yogyakarta city center. About a quarter million people live within a 10-kilometer (6-mile) radius of the volcano, according to authorities in surrounding districts.
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Joe...meet the volcano
Ping
I don’t think I’ll ever get over Krakatoa.
Prolly just as well, I missed out on Bali
Mt St Helens was a VEI 5, Krakatoa was VEI 6 or 10X St Helens
I have been to Kamchatka
Thanks rdl6989. Apropos of nothing, most cities have a prohibition on entering cemeteries after dark.
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