Awesome eruption of a volcano in Indonesia

With this new explosion, a red alert was immediately declared for all air transport in the region near the volcano.

"There was an eruption at Mount Sinabung at 4:28 pm (local time) The ash column was observed at about 7,000 meters above the summit." "said the head of the Sinabung del Monte monitoring station, Armen Putra.

Armen stated that this eruption was recorded on a seismogram of a maximum amplitude of 120 mm and a duration of ± 9 minutes and 17 seconds. It produced a hot cloud 3.5 km to the southeast and 3 km to the south and the roar reached the observation post of Mount Sinabung.

"Currently, Mount Sinabung is in a Level III (warning) state, however, we still encourage visitors or tourists not to do activities in the displaced villages as well as in the localities within a radius. 3 km from Sinabung Peak, within a radius of 5 km for the south-east sector and 4 km for the north-east sector, "he said.

In case of ash showers, Armen urged people to wear a mask when they leave in order to reduce health effects and remain alert to the danger of lava.

"We also encourage people to provide drinking water facilities and clean the roofs of dense volcanic ash houses so that they do not collapse," he said.

The last major eruption of Mount Sinabung took place on February 19, with a column height of 5,000 meters.

At that time, the magnitude of the eruption suddenly blackened several villages of the Karo Regency due to the accumulation of volcanic ash.

Mount Sinabung (in Indonesian: Gunung Sinabung) is a 2460 – meter – high stratovolcano formed in the Pleistocene and located north of the island of Sumatra, in a fundamentally agricultural region.

It is very close to another volcano, Sibayak 2 and 27 kilometers from Brastaggi.

Its last eruptions took place in August 2010 and from 2013 to 2017, after 400 years of calm.

It has been erupting since February 18, 2018.