Mt Merapi shoots up to 3,000 meters high ash clouds 27th January 2021
Mount Merapi seen from Kaliurang, Sleman, Yogyakarta province, on January 27, 2021. (ANTARA FOTO/Hendra Nurdiyansyah/hp.) Yogyakarta (ANTARA) - Mount Merapi, located between Yogyakarta and Central Java provinces, spouted clouds of hot ash 36 times on Wednesday.
The sliding distance of the ash clouds ranged from 500 to three thousand meters in the southwest direction, or upstream of Krasak and Boyong Rivers. These hot clouds were recorded on a seismogram with an amplitude between 15 and 60 mm and a duration of 83 to 197 seconds, head of the Center for Geological Disaster Research and Technology Development (BPPTKG), Hanik Humaida, said here on Wednesday.