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Published on Nov 25, 2013
Indonesia ordered the evacuation of
15,000 residents near an active volcano in the west of the vast
archipelago on Sunday as authorities raised the alert for the emergency
to the highest level.Mount Sinabung on the island of Sumatra has become increasingly active in recent months, spewing columns of ash several km into the air.
Authorities expanded the evacuation radius to 5 km (three miles) from 3 km and the military geared up to move residents out. About 6,000 have already been evacuated from the area, 88 km from Medan, capital of North Sumatra province.
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More displaced as Mt Sinabung
alert level raised
Karo
administration spokesperson Jhonson Tarigan said Sunday that the number
of villagers displaced continued to rise as Mount Sinabung erupted
again on Saturday evening.“There has been a 100 percent increase in the number of those displaced. The number is now at least 11,618 from 19 villages,” he said Sunday.
Jhonson said to handle the evacuees, the Karo administration had prepared 26 shelters with supplies. Of the total, 22 are already full.
Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center (PVMBG) head Hendrasto said Mt Sinabung's most recent eruption prompted the body to raise the volcano's status on Sunday to the highest level, "siaga" or "red alert".
“This is Sinabung's highest level of activity. The intensity of the eruptions continues to increase,” said Hendrasto.
He said that at 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, Sinabung was continuing to spew a column of ash up to 8 kilometers high.
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Indonesian authorities raised the alert for Mount Sinabung volcano on Sumatra to the highest level after it erupted 8 times overnight, an official said Sunday.
The
new eruptions forced thousands of villagers to flee their homes,
bringing the number of people displaced to 12,300 since the volcano
began spewing hot ash last month, said Sutopo Nugroho, spokesman for the
National Disaster Management Agency.
"We are in urgent need of trucks to move people, food, blankets and medical assistance," Nugroho said.
Mount Sinabung, in the province of North Sumatra, had been dormant for 400 years before it erupted in August 2010.
There are nearly 130 active volcanoes across the Indonesian archipelago.
There are nearly 130 active volcanoes across the Indonesian archipelago.
A
volcano in western Indonesia has erupted eight times in just a few
hours, "raining down rocks" over a large area and forcing thousands to
flee their homes, officials said Sunday.
Mount
Sinabung has been erupting on and off since September, but went into
overdrive late Saturday and early Sunday, repeatedly spewing out red-hot
ash and rocks up to eight kilometres (five miles) into the air.
Several
thousand people left their homes overnight, taking the total number of
people who have fled since the volcano rumbled to life to around 12,300,
said the national disaster agency.
"People
panicked last night as the eruption was accompanied by a loud
thunderous sound and vibrations. Then it started raining down rocks,"
said local government official Robert Peranginangin.
They ran helter-skelter from their homes and cried for help."He added there were no known casualties from the latest eruptions.
The
volcanology agency raised the alert level for the volcano, on the
northern tip of Sumatra island, to the highest level of a four-point
scale, meaning a hazardous eruption is imminent or under way.
National
disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the government was
calling on people living within five kilometres (3.1 miles) of the
volcano to leave their homes.
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