Update: Evacuation zone at Indonesia's Merapi volcano is set at 10 kilometers; 19,000 ordered to fl

Update: Evacuation zone at Indonesia's Merapi volcano is set at 10 kilometers; 19,000 ordered to flee

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YOGYAKARTA (Indonesia) - INDONESIA warned residents living in the shadow of the nation's most active volcano to evacuate on Tuesday or risk being killed by a major eruption.

Authorities put an area 10km around the crater of Mount Merapi on red alert on Monday, ordering 19,000 people to flee with the possibility of the mountain blowing its top looking increasingly likely.

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BREAKING! Indonesia Raises Volcano Alert Level To Max!! Merapi Is About To Explode!

Evacuations have started, and it seems that Merapi is now more than likely to blow.

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Hundreds have already been relocated to makeshift camps set up at government buildings and sports fields more than six miles (10 kilometers) from the mountain's base, most of them elderly residents and children.

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Im thinking an earthquake will occur causing the eruption, or and earthquake will occur after an eruption.



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holy canoli i just saw a mystic there is refusing to leave i hope everyone there is safe

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Hope may be all that the remaining people inside the predicted effected zone will have going for them. In 1980 Mount St Helens in the US blew its top, after an injection of magma below the volcano created a huge bulge, fracturing the surface of the north face. This slope promptly fell away , and the exposure of the molten rock beneath to lower preasure caused an explosion which sent pulverised rock an lava slamming out which over took the avalanching north side of the volcano, such was the force of the detonation.
The pyroclastic flow which resulted from the eruption is thought to have breifly passed the speed of sound, which would be terrifying enough, if you didnt know that pyroclastic flows are full of volcanic gases , and are hot enough to burn you dead in moments. Added to the fact that this flow covered an area 23 miles wide and 19 miles long , you can pretty much guess how little chance any living thing in that area had to survive.
Mudslides from melting glaciers laid waste to a huge amount of land, and the ash from the eruption was deposited in 11 US states. Fifty seven people, and thousands of animals were killed as a result of the eruption.

Now here we have this volcano in central Java... Tens of thousands of people will be effected by this eruption, even if the situation were to be very different from the Mount St Helens disaster. Ten thousand people live on the slopes of Mount Merapi, and forty thousand people live close enough to be in serious trouble , even if this eruption does not prove to be as violent or expansive in its area of effect.
It would be interesting to know wether or not the situation is in any way similar. Although there does not appear in any available report, a mention of a bulge , the very fact that the top might blow off is reason for extreme worry . The forces at work in volcanos are enourmously powerful. Some volcanic eruptions are reported to have had forces and energies exchanged in the same power range as small thermonuclear detonations. They are in fact the epitome of catastrophy. Good luck Java. You are going to need it.

hopefully there aren't any people within the blast radius...if there are people near it...then they are just using their brains right, but hopefully they make it out alive

Tsnunami/Earthquake/Volcano...they just need a Typhoon now and they get a prize i think


Feel for the people of Indonesia, all of this must be caused by the Sun spots and CME that happend the other day

one of my pen pals on yahoo lives in indonesia. she lives about 500 miles away from the volcand but she hasn't said anything about eqs tho.but with all the volcanoes suddenly erupting at the same time aeound the world we are in agreement something is going on we don't know about-.she is getting quite a bit of ash tho.