Mount Merapi spews hot clouds rising two kilometers above crater
28th January 2021
Column of hot clouds from Mount Merapi on January 28, 2021. (ANTARA/HO/twitter BPPTKG)
Yogyakarta (ANTARA) - The 2,968-meter (9,737-foot) Mount Merapi, Indonesia's most active volcano, belched hot ash clouds sliding up to two thousand meters in the southwest direction or the upstream of the Kali Krasak and Boyong rivers on Thursday.
The initial eruption of pyroclastic clouds took place at 10:13 a.m. local time and had been recorded on a seismogram, with an amplitude of 69 mm and a duration of 175 seconds, the Center for Geological Disaster Research and Technology Development (BPPTKG) reported on its official Twitter account on Thursday.