Indonesian volcano erupts, sending river of lava flowing
Indonesia’s most active volcano erupted on Wednesday, with lava and searing gas clouds flowing 1500m down its slopes.
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Indonesia’s most active volcano erupted on Wednesday, with lava and searing gas clouds flowing 1500m down its slopes.
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 duratio...