The tsunami in Indonesia makes more than 370 dead; continuous alert | New

It was a day of sorrow for those who have lost or are still looking for relatives and friends, and a lot of work for the rescue teams.

The number of dead and wounded is increasing as you can remove debris and the water is falling. But the authorities are asking people to move away from coastal areas because the danger persists.

Indonesia is on the alert because new eruptions of Anak Krakatoa have been recorded, which can cause more waves. The government now says that it is necessary to monitor volcanic activity throughout the archipelago.

Indonesia, which has about 17,000 islands, is home to 13% of the planet's active volcanoes. The island of Krakatoa origin had many of these volcanoes. In 1883, a sequence of explosions was so violent that it caused most of the island to disappear and redraw maps of the region. Nearly 50 years later, a new series of eruptions on the seabed gave birth to a new volcano – the son of Krakatoa, or Anak Krakatoa.

During the eruption on Saturday (22), the collapse of the southwestern wall of the volcano projected to the sea an amount of rock equivalent to 90 football fields. This generated giant waves that were heading towards the beach. As the depth decreased, the height of the waves increased, creating a wall of water invading the coast forcefully. The eruption of Anak Krakatoa occurred 24 minutes before the tsunami.

The agency for disaster management admitted that no alarm had been triggered and that there were technical shortcomings and a lack of resources to strengthen earthquake monitoring and tsunamis. It is also necessary to create an alert program for volcanic eruptions, which probably caused the tragedy of this weekend.