The Ruang volcano, located in northern Indonesia, is roaring again, with a series of eruptions taking place today, April 30, 2024.
According to the country’s volcanology service, the eruptions have prompted orders to urgently evacuate residents from surrounding areas, close the nearby international airport and raise the alert level to the highest.
Since the beginning of April, the volcano in Indonesia it has erupted more than six times, prompting the hasty evacuation of 6,000 residents from their homes. Authorities believe there is still a risk.
Ruang, in North Kelevi (or Sulawesi) province, erupted around 01:15 on Monday to Tuesday (yesterday at 20:15 Greek time) and twice this morning, the volcanology service said in a statement. A column of ash was ejected from the crater, reaching a height of up to five kilometers.
An exclusion zone, with a radius of six kilometers, has been set around the volcano, whose crater is at an altitude of 725 meters above sea level.
According to the agency, residents should be aware of the “danger of throwing red-hot rocks, hot clouds (including volcanic ash) and tsunamis due to material falling from the volcano into the sea.”
🇮🇩 Meanwhile, a new powerful eruption of the #Room volcano has begun in #Indonesia#April30 2024 #volcanoEruption #ClimateCrisis #Newsnight pic.twitter.com/PNcLRDoAGk
— Irene (@irene_makarenko) April 30, 2024
Photos and videos released by the agency show a crimson plume of volcanic ash rising into the night sky, thick clouds of ash spewing from the crater, wooden houses bursting into flames as incandescent ash fell on them…
According to newsit, in Ruang more than 800 residents were hastily evacuated earlier this month. Some returned home when authorities announced the lifting of the state of emergency yesterday, an AFP reporter found. The number of people who returned home but are forced to leave again today is not known at this stage.
Indonesia’s Ruang volcano erupts again, escalating alerts and evacuations. Stay informed as the island nation faces increased volcanic activity. #Indonesia #Sulawesi #MountRuang #VolcanoSpace #EruptionAlert 🌋 #Volcano #Mountain #Climagram #TheDailyIntake pic.twitter.com/CuIN36mG30
— The Daily Intake (@dailyintake2023) April 30, 2024
Authorities closed Sam Ratulangi International Airport in the provincial capital Manado again today, more than 100 kilometers away, state air traffic control agency AirNav Indonesia said.
Ruang Volcano, Indonesia is erupting. It’s the southernmost stratovolcano in the Sangihe Islands arc, North Sulawesi. Pyroclastic density currents flow away from the volcano. Thousands of people had been evacuated.
— Dr Rebecca Williams (@Volcanologist) April 30, 2024
Indonesia, a huge archipelago in Southeast Asia, stretches much of it above the Pacific Ocean’s “ring of fire,” a zone where tectonic plates intersect and volcanic and seismic activity is intense.
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