Mount Merapi belches lava up to 1.5 kilometers on Tuesday 16th February 2021
Documentation - Mt Merapi spewed red hot lava seen from Wonorejo, Hargobinangun, Pakem, Sleman, Yogyakarta, Monday (Jan 18, 2021). (ANTARA FOTO/Andreas Fitri Atmoko/wsj/aa) Yogyakarta (ANTARA) - Mount Merapi, straddling Central Java and Yogyakarta provinces, spewed red hot lava 12 times, with a maximum glide distance of 1.5 kilometers in the southwesterly direction between midnight and 6 a.m. local time on Tuesday.
During the time when the volcano erupted, 38 earthquake avalanches were recorded, with an amplitude of 3-24 mm for a duration of 12.8-96.8 seconds and a multi-phase earthquake, with an amplitude of 3 mm for nine seconds, Head of the Geological Disaster Research and Technology Development Center (BPPTKG) Hanik Humaida noted in a written statement released on Tuesday.
Five volcanoes erupting sporadically in Indonesia since Jan 2021 15th February 2021
Mount Merapi. ANTARA FOTO/Hendra Nurdiyansyah/hp. (.) Indonesia has the largest number and highest density of active volcanoes worldwide, as the country lies in the Pacific Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped region of convergent tectonic plates and several volcanoes.
There are 147 volcanoes in Indonesia, of which 130 are active, spread along the islands of Sumatra, Sulawesi, Java, Bali, Nusa Tenggara, and Maluku.
The archipelagic country has a population of some 271 million and some 17 thousand islands located between the Pacific and Indian Ocean.
On account of the large number of active volcanoes in the country, experts affirm that over 197 million Indonesians are living within 100 kilometers of a volcano, with nine million of them being within just 10 kilometers.
Mt Merapi spews hot lava for 10 times 7th February 2021
archive photo: Mount Merapi. (ANTARA FOTO/Andreas Fitri Atmoko/foc/pri) Yogyakarta (ANTARA) - Mount Merapi located between Central Java and Yogyakarta Provinces, on Sunday morning spewed hot lava for 10 times with a maximum sliding distance of one kilometer, according to the Geological Disaster Research and Technology Development Center (BPPTKG). Avalanches of incandescent lava occurred for 10 times, with a maximum sliding distance of 1,000 meters to the southwest or upstream of Krasak and Boyong Rivers, Head of BPPTKG Hanik Humaida said here on Sunday morning.
During the observation period of midnight until 6 a.m., Mount Merapi also experienced 27 earthquake avalanches with an amplitude of 3-11 mm for 11.4-52.2 seconds and two multi-phase earthquakes with an amplitude of 6 mm for 7.6-9.4 seconds.
Mount Merapi spews hot clouds rising two kilometers above crater 28th January 2021
Column of hot clouds from Mount Merapi on January 28, 2021. (ANTARA/HO/twitter BPPTKG) Yogyakarta (ANTARA) - The 2,968-meter (9,737-foot) Mount Merapi, Indonesia s most active volcano, belched hot ash clouds sliding up to two thousand meters in the southwest direction or the upstream of the Kali Krasak and Boyong rivers on Thursday.
The initial eruption of pyroclastic clouds took place at 10:13 a.m. local time and had been recorded on a seismogram, with an amplitude of 69 mm and a duration of 175 seconds, the Center for Geological Disaster Research and Technology Development (BPPTKG) reported on its official Twitter account on Thursday.
Mt Merapi shoots up to 3,000 meters high ash clouds 27th January 2021
Mount Merapi seen from Kaliurang, Sleman, Yogyakarta province, on January 27, 2021. (ANTARA FOTO/Hendra Nurdiyansyah/hp.) Yogyakarta (ANTARA) - Mount Merapi, located between Yogyakarta and Central Java provinces, spouted clouds of hot ash 36 times on Wednesday.
The sliding distance of the ash clouds ranged from 500 to three thousand meters in the southwest direction, or upstream of Krasak and Boyong Rivers. These hot clouds were recorded on a seismogram with an amplitude between 15 and 60 mm and a duration of 83 to 197 seconds, head of the Center for Geological Disaster Research and Technology Development (BPPTKG), Hanik Humaida, said here on Wednesday.