The impressive images of the eruption of the Sinabung volcano: a column of ash 5000 meters high

Indonesia’s Sinabung volcano erupted on Tuesday morning with a dramatic plume of ash and smoke. several kilometers of elevation above sea level, with a blue sky in the background.

Volcanologists have recorded over thirteen projections reaching some 5,000 meters above sea level on the island of Sumatra.

The Indonesian authorities have not raised the alert level of the volcano, who is already in the third level on a scale of four, but they refuse access to an area of ​​five kilometers around its crater.

“People are afraid and many stay at home to protect themselves from the thick volcanic ash”, Roy Bangun, a 41-year-old farmer, told AFP.

The cloud of smoke emitted by the Sinabung is the largest since 2010, said Muhammad Nurul Asrori, responsible for monitoring the volcano, warning of increased risks.

“The large lava dome could burst at any time, causing an even worse avalanche of flaming clouds., he claimed.

The Sinabung, a 2460 meter high volcano in North Sumatra, he slept for several centuries before waking up in 2010 with a rash that killed two people.

The volcano had two other fatal eruptions, one in 2014 in which at least 16 people died and another in 2016 with seven other victims.

In IndonesiaAn archipelago of over 17,000 islands and islets, there are 130 active volcanoes. The country is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of ​​great seismic activity and volcanic eruptions, where three large tectonic plates converge (Indo-Pacific, Australian and Eurasian).

The Merapi, on the island of Java, it has also shown strong activity in recent weeks. On Monday, it again emitted incandescent lava flows.

(With information from AFP)

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