Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes, exploded for a second consecutive day, sending a column of volcanic materials and ash up to 18 kilometers early on Saturday and covering villages with debris. They did not immediately report victims.
Another explosion on Friday night had sent ash clouds to up to 10 kilometers and illuminated the night sky with incandescent lava and lightning. The two explosions occurred in less than five hours.
Indonesia’s Geology Service recorded a snowstorm of hot gas clouds mixed with stones and lava traveling up to 5 kilometers (3 miles) below the slopes of the mountain. Observations from unmanned aircraft showed deep movement of the magma, causing vibrations recorded in the seismic monitors.
Volcanic material, including hot thumb gravel, launched up to 8 kilometers from the crater, covering the nearby villages and cities with a thick volcanic residue, the service said. He asked residents to be vigilant for heavy rainfall that could cause lava flows in rivers coming from the volcano.
In addition, Saturday’s explosion was one of the largest in Indonesia since 2010, when Mount Merapi, the country’s most unstable volcano, exploded on the densely populated island of Java. That explosion claimed the lives of more than 350 people and forced hundreds of thousands to move away.
It is in an outburst
On July 7, we had a new eruption of the volcano that led to the delay or cancellation of dozens of flights to Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport and covered roads and paddles with thick, gray mud and stones.
Lewotobi Laki Laki, a 1,584 -meter volcano on the remote island of Flores, is at the highest alarm level since its explosion on June 18, and the blockade zone doubled within a radius of 7 kilometers, as explosions became more frequent.
The Indonesian government has permanently relocated thousands of residents after a series of explosions where nine people killed and destroyed thousands of homes in November.
Indonesia is an archipelago of over 280 million inhabitants with frequent seismic activity. It has 120 active volcanoes and is located along the “Ring of Fire”, a series of petal -shaped seismic cracks that encompasses the Pacific basin.
