Posted on 12/04/2022 8:24:16 AM PST by BenLurkin
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's highest volcano on its most densely populated island released searing gas clouds and rivers of lava Sunday in its latest eruption.
Monsoon rains eroded and finally collapsed the lava dome atop 3,676-meter (12,060-foot) Mount Semeru, causing the eruption, according to National Disaster Management Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari.
Several villages were blanketed with falling ash, blocking out the sun, but no casualties have been reported. Several hundred residents, their faces smeared with volcanic dust and rain, fled to temporary shelters or left for other safe areas.
Thick columns of ash were blasted more than 1,500 meters (nearly 5,000 feet) into the sky while searing gas and lava flowed down Semeru's slopes toward a nearby river.
Increased activities of the volcano on Sunday afternoon prompted authorities to widen the danger zone to 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the crater, said Hendra Gunawan, who heads the Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center.
He said scientists raised the volcano's alert level to the highest and people were advised to keep off the southeastern sector along the Besuk Kobokan River, which is in the path of the lava flow.
Semeru's last major eruption was in December last year, when it blew up with fury that left 51 people dead in villages that were buried in layers of mud. Several hundred others suffered serious burns and the eruption forced the evacuation of more than 10,000 people. The government moved about 2,970 houses out of the danger zone.
Semeru, also known as Mahameru, has erupted numerous times in the last 200 years. Still, as is the case with many of the 129 active volcanoes in Indonesia, tens of thousands of people continue to live on its fertile slopes.
Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 270 million people, sits along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," a horseshoe-shaped series of fault lines, and is prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity.
Great, thank you.
Bfl
And just like that, all the efforts from the past 30 years to curb man-made glo bull warming go up in smoke.
It’s not in their computer models, so it doesn’t count.
Also, oil leaks from the ocean floor are not pollution because white men didn’t cause them.
No one ever address the Earth’s magnetic field either, though I think it could be an input.
Gamma rays from space, etc?
I’m smart enough to know humans aren’t smart enough to know...
A friend of mine is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first woman to walk across the Australian continent. The only thing she had trouble with was human beings.
Bttt
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I think I’ll go entertain the cat with my Johnny Cash impression.
She’s tougher than I am…
Australians find this funny when we hear it from Americans - we get it from the Europeans, but Americans...
America has venomous snakes, and venomous spiders, and its own crocodilians. OK, not all of these are necessarily on the same scale - but America also has bears, and wolves, and mountain lions...
So are we, thanks to Biden and the cabal of Democrats.
By far, our inner city humans are the most dangerous here.
Your creepy crawlers and slitherers are way worse.
I heard you guys have a spider that will chase a person…
The galactic current sheet is stirring things up. Before you know it the North pole will be off the coast of Brazil some place.
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