Five volcanoes erupting sporadically in Indonesia since Jan 2021 15th February 2021
Mount Merapi. ANTARA FOTO/Hendra Nurdiyansyah/hp. (.) Indonesia has the largest number and highest density of active volcanoes worldwide, as the country lies in the Pacific Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped region of convergent tectonic plates and several volcanoes.
There are 147 volcanoes in Indonesia, of which 130 are active, spread along the islands of Sumatra, Sulawesi, Java, Bali, Nusa Tenggara, and Maluku.
The archipelagic country has a population of some 271 million and some 17 thousand islands located between the Pacific and Indian Ocean.
On account of the large number of active volcanoes in the country, experts affirm that over 197 million Indonesians are living within 100 kilometers of a volcano, with nine million of them being within just 10 kilometers.
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.