Indonesia volcano erupts, spewing ash 3km into sky
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties after the Sunday eruption of Mount Marapi on the island of Sumatra
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There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties after the Sunday eruption of Mount Marapi on the island of Sumatra
A volcano erupted in Indonesia Sunday, spewing ash almost 10,000 feet in the air, causing hot ash clouds to spread over several miles.
I am at the ruined Shell refinery. Bitumen was made here until 1986. Now it is shaggy yellow berms with rubble inside. Thistles, snails in a tube, a plastic-coated chain-link fence falls from the post, brambles with plastic bags. A concrete slab scoured by ocean waves. Rusted rebar, mounds of granite, shattered loading docks, a pipeline to nowhere. The refinery remains are eroding into the ocean.
The Japanese government announced the autumnal Service Star 2023 awards granted to three Indonesian nationals on November 3, 2023.
On this day in 2010, Mount Merapi in Indonesia began a month-long series of violent eruptions that killed 353 people and caused the evacuation of another 350,000 people