Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano erupts, alert at highest level

Authorities recorded the volcano unleashing 10,000 metres (32,800 feet) of heavy grey clouds.

Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano successful south-central Indonesia has erupted, spewing towering columns of blistery ash into the aerial and prompting authorities to some rise the alert to the highest level and grow the information portion to 8km (5 miles) from the crater.

The Indonesian Geological Agency said it recorded the volcano unleashing 10,000 metres (32,800 feet) of heavy grey clouds connected Tuesday afternoon.

The detonation of ash expanded into a mushroom-shaped unreality that could beryllium seen from cities located 90km (56 miles) to 150km (93 miles) from the mountain.

There were nary contiguous reports of harm oregon casualties. Residents were warned to beryllium vigilant astir dense rainfall triggering lava flows successful rivers originating from the volcano.

There were besides nary contiguous reports of cancelled flights aft Tuesday’s eruption.

Volcanic fume billows from Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki [Andre Kriting/AP]

An eruption of Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki successful November killed 9 radical and injured dozens. The 1,584-metre (5,197-foot) upland is simply a duplicate volcano with Mount Lewotobi Perempuan successful the territory of Flores Timur.

Laki-laki means “man” successful Indonesian, portion its calmer duplicate volcano was named aft the Indonesian connection for “woman”.

Indonesia is an archipelago of 270 cardinal radical with predominant seismic activity. It has 120 progressive volcanoes and sits on the “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped bid of seismic responsibility lines encircling the Pacific Basin.

On October 27, West Sumatra province’s Mount Marapi – 1 of the country’s astir progressive volcanoes – besides erupted.