Indonesia: Mount Merapi Threatens to Erupt

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | April 18th, 2006 | Trackback

Mount Merapi, which dominates the horizon near Yogyakarta on the island of Java, appears on the verge of a major eruption. Authorities have banned climbing the peak and have set up evacuation procedures for villages on the mountain’s slopes. Measurements of seismic activity on the volcano have prompted officials to raise the alert to the second highest level. Travel within a five mile radius of the summit should be avoided. The volcano’s last major eruption was in 1994 when 60 people were killed; in 1930, an eruption killed 1,300.

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