Posted on 03/11/2023 11:24:45 AM PST by BenLurkin
The volcano, located in Indonesia’s Yogyakarta special region, erupted at about 12pm (05:00 GMT) on Saturday and unleashed clouds of hot ash and a mixture of rock, lava and gas that travelled up to seven kilometres (4.3 miles) down its slopes.
A column of hot clouds rose 100 metres into the air, said the National Disaster Management Agency’s spokesperson Abdul Muhari. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
At least eight villages near the volcano have been affected by volcanic ash... Kompas TV showed ash-covered houses and roads at a village near the volcano, located on Java Island.
The 2,963 metre-high (9,721 feet) Merapi is one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes. Its last major eruption in 2010 killed more than 300 people and forced the evacuation of some 280,000 residents.
Saturday’s was Merapi’s most powerful eruption since 1930, when about 1,300 people were killed. An eruption in 1994 left about 60 people dead.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
But we’d all better be buying electric cars because...pollution or something. ;)
Electric cars need frequent recharging of battery with ELECTRICITY made with more fossil fuels than wind or solar.
You can see how much green energy is produced in USA here:
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
It’s a good thing volcanos and the sun have nothing to do with global warming or we’d be in real trouble.
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