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On the densely populated island of Java, Merapi unleashed clouds of hot ash and a mixture of rock, and lava that traveled up to 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) down its slopes, said Agus Budi Santoso ...
It was Mount Merapi’s biggest lava flow since authorities raised its danger level in November 2020, said Hanik Humaida, the head of Yogyakarta’s Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation ...
Indonesia’s most active volcano, Mount Merapi, erupted on March 3, according to local reports, sending ash and steam 6 kilometers into the air and leading officials to close the Adi Soemarmo ...
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 ...
Mount Merapi (left foreground) and Merbabu (right); with far view of Mount Ungaran, Sumbing, Sundoro, Dieng, and Slamet in Central Java Main article: List of volcanoes in Indonesia This list is of volcanoes from the west of Java to the east.
2011 eruption of Grímsvötn: 4 Mount Merapi [55] Indonesia 2010 18.3 353 2010 eruptions of Mount Merapi: 4 Eyjafjallajökull [56] Iceland 2010 9 0.25 [57] A series of eruptions between March and June caused the worst flight disruption over Europe since the Second World War. [58]
Rescuers searching the hazardous slopes of Indonesia's Mount Marapi volcano found 11 more bodies of climbers who were caught by a surprise weekend eruption, raising the number of confirmed dead to ...