Medan, N Sumatra – Mount Sinabung in Karo district, North Sumatra province, erupted once again on Friday afternoon, hurling columns of ashes as far as one kilometer into the sky.
The volcanic ash of Mount Sinabung was clearly noticeable, chief of the Mount Sinabung observatory post, Armen Putra, stated.
The thick, white ash, which shot out of the crater with weak pressure reached a height of 50-100 meters above the crater’s summit. The hot clouds were recorded at an amplitude of 38 mm and lasted 143 seconds.
The alert status of the 2,460 meter high volcano has currently been set at level III.
Armen Putra interested residents and farmers not to carry out activities in moved villages within a three-kilometer radius from the volcano’s summit, a five-kilometer sectoral radius in the southeast sector, and a four-kilometer radius in the northeast sector.
” The people who live near rivers whose upper reach remains in Mount Sinabung need to stay alert for the threat of lava,” he said.
Mount Sinabung has consistently erupted because 2010, displacing 10s of thousands of people in disaster zones.
In 2015, early on the early morning of August 8, the volcano gushed a 2 thousand-meter-high ash column. The eruption had actually affected regional homeowners in the sub-districts of Teran, Berastagi, Simpang 4, and Merdeka.
In November, 2020, the volcano ejected clouds of hot ash for two consecutive days, according to the Volcanology and Geological Catastrophe Mitigation Center (PVMBG).
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