Sumatra’s deadly Mount Sinabung exploded early this afternoon, spewing ash 1½ miles (2.5 km) into the sky.
Thousands of villagers were evacuated from around the mountain and warned to stay at least 4.2 miles (7 km) away, the Daily Mail reports.
“Authorities feared lava flows could cascade down the mountain and destroy homes, as has happened several times.”
“Only last month another eruption rocked the area, blasting ash 2.4 miles (4.2km) into the air and causing pyroclastic flows many kilometres across surrounding countryside.”
See many, many photos:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4924872/Indonesian-volcano-Mount-Sinabung-explodes.html
More photos here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/10551746/Volcano-Mount-Sinabung-in-Sumatra-Indonesia-erupts-spewing-lava-and-ash.html
Video of the eruption was posted on Twitter by Aisyah Llewellyn, a freelance journalist in Indonesia.
See video here:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/indonesian-volcano-mount-sinabung-erupts-in-sumatra_2321215.html
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Five months later…ongoing.
Laterally speaking, Sinabung is roughly equatorial, meaning the fine ash’s next port of call is the Andes followed by the Amazon rain forest, eventually moving to equatorial Africa.
Not encouraging.
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