FOX Weather, by Julian Atienza: Indonesia’s Mount Semeru volcano erupted Wednesday afternoon around 4:00 p.m. local time, sending ash more than 6,500 feet into the air, according to data from the country’s Center for Volcanology.
The eruption was ongoing as of Wednesday evening local time.
Indonesian officials raised Mount Semeru’s volcano activity level to Level 4, its highest warning, denoting an ongoing eruption.
According to state-run media, Indonesia’s Disaster Mitigation Agency announced roughly 300 people from nearby villages had been evacuated to shelters.
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology’s Volcanic Ash Advisory Center, which is responsible for the airspace around Southeast Asia, issued a Volcanic Ash Advisory for air traffic stating that the eruption is posing an immediate threat to aviation.
The government prohibited people from entering within a roughly 12-mile radius of the volcano due to potential hot ash clouds or lava flows.
Officials released a screenshot of hot volcanic ash surrounding infrastructure some 8 miles from Mount Semeru’s peak.
Ejected pyroclastic rocks are possible 5 miles away from Mount Semeru’s peak, according to the government’s warning.
With a summit more than 5,500 feet above sea level, Mount Semeru is the tallest volcano on the island of Java and is one of the region’s most active volcanoes, according to the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Project.
Mount Semeru is classified as a stratovolcano and most recently erupted on Nov. 6.
Prophetic Link:
“You will see the accidents that are befalling us in our world, those that are on the cars, and the games, and that are on the water, and the flame and the fire, and the blood, and the volcanoes, and all these things. They are perishing. Why? The Spirit of God is being withdrawn from the earth.” Letters and Manuscripts, Volume 17 (1902), par. 28
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