Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano on Flores Island today expelled a column of ashes over a kilometer high. Indonesia placed the surrounding area on maximum alert.
In a statement issued this Sunday, the Indonesian Volcanology Department raised the alert of the volcano Lewotobi male for the highest level, on a four scale, citing an increase in activity, with eight weekend eruptions, including one that launched ashes up to 5.5 km of altitude.
According to the director of the Indonesia agency, Muhammad Wafid“Activities will not be allowed within six kilometers around the volcano”, while in the West-Northeast Sector, the exclusion zone extends up to seven kilometers of the crater.
The expert asked communities that live near the volcano who maintain the Calm down, wear facial masks and be careful before possible lava flows.
In February, during a similar increase in the activity, the authorities had ordered the residents of six cities that abandoned their dwellings.
Shortly thereafter, Lewotobi Laki-Laki, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, expelled gray clouds about 8 km In height, causing the cancellation of at least seven flights on the tourist island of Bali.
Flores Island, from which many tourist excursions depart, especially for the Komodo National Park, is approximately 800 kilometers east from Bali.
The volcano, with 1,703 meters highI had already erupted several times in November, causing the Nine People’s Deathinjuring 31 and forcing the withdrawal of 11 thousand people.
Indonesia has over 400 volcanoes, of which at least 129 are still active and 65 are classified as dangerous.
The country, which records about 7 thousand earthquakes per yearis within the call Pacific Fire Ringan area of intense seismic and volcanic activity that is shaken by about seven thousand earthquakes a year, most of them of small magnitude.
Pacific Fire Ring
Nine out of ten terrarians registered in the Pacific region world, which begins south of the American continent and ends in New Zealand, after a circular lap, passing through North America, Russia, and Japan, passing through the Indonesian islands.
