Mount Merapi, Indonesia’s most volatile volcano, spews ash in new eruption

Indonesia’s most volatile volcano on Sunday spewed ash and hot gas in a massive column as high as 6km (3.7 miles) into the sky.Mount Merapi’s clouds of ash, accompanied by a rumbling sound heard kilometres away, blanketed several villages on the main island of Java.Indonesia’s Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Centre did not raise Merapi’s alert status, which already was at the third-highest level since it began erupting last August.Villagers living on Merapi’s fertile slopes are…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3089959/mount-merapi-indonesias-most-volatile-volcano-spews-ash