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The sea is a very seismically active area due to the Molucca Sea Plate.
Indonesia warned Monday that its most volatile volcano could erupt at any time and started evacuating some of the thousands of villagers living on the mountain's slope.
Mount Merapi has seen increased volcanic activity over the past week and officials have raised the alert level for the 9,737-foot (2,968-meter) -high mountain to the most urgent level, said government volcanologist Surono, who uses only one name.
The mountain last erupted in 2006, when it sent an avalanche of blistering gases and rock fragments racing down the mountain that killed two people. A similar eruption in 1994 killed 60 people, while 1,300 people died in an eruption in 1930.
Originally posted by JJBB22
Don't you just love disinformation/Suppressiontactics, ridiculing others is a number one tactic. it's amazing how many people on ATS engage in it and fall for it.
DISASTER relief officials have activated plans to evacuate as many as 40,000 people from around Indonesia's most active volcano, Merapi in central Java.
Local officials are fearing a major eruption.
Authorities yesterday morning raised the eruption alert level to red, the highest.
They began evacuating about 2600 people by buses, pick-up trucks and ambulances from two villages, Kaliurang and Kemiran, likely to be in the path of pyroclastic gas and lava flows.
"All the parameters - multiface earthquakes, cone deformation and visual - increased significantly overnight," Fabri Sadana, of the Jogjakarta-based Centre for Volcano Investigation and Technology Development, said yesterday. "The volcanic activity looks . . . as if the eruption will be bigger than 2006."
Originally posted by m0r1arty
reply to post by JJBB22
Well that's it kicked off for sure now. It's very dark over here in South East Asia - more so on Java.
I hope they get people out and contain them safely.
It's just a matter of watching and hoping now that it doesn't get worse - it's right at the beginning of tourist season over there too just now and so I expect we'll get global news from it as tourists will be in the area.
Tsunamis are the main worry for that area - that and the villages you mentioned on the slopes.
-m0r
The U.S. Geological Survey says the 7.5-magnitude temblor struck at a depth of 20 miles (30 kilometers) and is centered on a small island off the coast of Sumatra, where a massive earthquake and tsunami hit in 2004.
It's very dark over here in South East Asia - more so on Java.