Mount Merapi spews ash on June 1, 2018(Photo: AFP/VNA)Jakarta (VNA) –Indonesian authorities have issued an aviation warning after Mount Merapi onthe island of Java erupted on October 14, spewing a column of ash up to 3kmhigh.
The national volcanology agencysaid Mount Merapi is located on the border of Central Java and Yogyakartaprovinces and erupted at 4:31 p.m (local time).
It then issued a volcanoobservatory notice for aviation with an orange status, indicating the possibilityof a further eruption.
A no-go zone has been set upwithin a radius of 3km from the crater, while people living near the volcano havebeen warned of possible raining ash.
Mount Merapi is among Indonesia's129 active volcanoes and has regularly erupted since 1948. Thousands of peoplelive on the slopes of the volcano.
Also on October 14, a5.9-magnitude earthquake hit the Indonesian city of Bengkulu, said the USGeological Survey.
The epicenter, with a depth of10km, was initially determined to be at 4.5312 degrees south latitude and101.1508 degrees east longitude.
Indonesia, one of the mostdisaster-prone nations on the earth, straddles the Pacific “Ring of Fire”,where tectonic plates collide and a large portion of the world’s volcaniceruptions and earthquakes occur./.
VNA
