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Indonesia’s Mount Merapi erupted Sunday, spreading searing gas clouds and avalanches of lava down its slopes as other active volcanoes flared up across the country, forcing the evacuation of ...
Indonesia’s Mount Merapi continued to erupt Friday, forcing authorities to halt tourism and mining activities on the slopes of the country’s most active volcano. The volcano on the densely ...
Mount Merapi, colour lithograph, Junghuhn and Mieling, 1853–1854. Mount Merapi (Javanese: ꦒꦸꦤꦸꦁ ꦩꦼꦫꦥꦶ, romanized: gunung měrapi, Indonesian: Gunung Merapi, lit. 'Fire Mountain') is an active stratovolcano located on the border between the province of Central Java and the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is the ...
Capable of lava bombs and violent VEI 3 eruptions. Mount Merapi: 2,910 m (9,547 ft) Central Java/ Special Region of Yogyakarta: Indonesia: 5,050,000 (2019 est) [16] 2024 Whole of Special Region of Yogyakarta, and Klaten Regency: Mount Nyiragongo: 3,470 m (11,385 ft) North Kivu: Democratic Republic of the Congo: 2,000,000 22 May 2021 – present ...
The most severe eruptions on Earth in historical times took place in Indonesia. In 1815, the giant eruption of Mount Tambora, a stratovolcano, became the largest known eruption in the world during historical times, and it had such a large effect on the climate that the following year, 1816, in Europe was known as the year without summer. 40 km 3 of ash were produced as a result of the eruption ...
MANILA (Reuters) -The alert level has been raised at a volcano in the central Philippines after it erupted, sending a 5-kilometre (3.1-miles) high ash cloud into the sky, the country's seismology ...
1979 eruption of Mount Marapi [32] 79 Mount Mayon: 2 Philippines: 1993 [16] 70 Nyiragongo: 1 Democratic Republic of the Congo: 1977 [33] 70~ Kolumbo: 4 Greece: 1650 [34] 69 Semeru: 4 Indonesia: 2021 2021 Semeru eruption: 64 Mount Merapi: 2 Indonesia: 1994 [35] 63 Mount Ontake: 3 Japan: 2014 2014 Mount Ontake eruption: 58 Sakurajima: 4 Japan ...
A volcano belched a plume of ash and steam into the night sky in the central Philippines in a powerful explosion that sent more than 700 people fleeing to evacuation camps. The explosion of Mount ...