Indonesia's provincial search and rescue agency deploys teams to the worst-affected areas near Mount Semeru to assess damage.
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Thousands of residents in Indonesia’s East Java were on high alert on Monday, December 5, after aprompted authorities to impose an 8-kilometer no-go zone and forced evacuations of entire villages.
“Yesterday, the rainfall level was high, causing all the material from the top of the mountain to come down. But today, so far, there’s no rain, so its relatively safe,” he said.The 3,676-meter volcano erupted at 2:46 pm local time on Sunday . Footage shot by local residents showed Mt. Semeru spewing a giant cloud of grey ash high above its crater, which later engulfed the mountain and surrounding rice paddy fields, roads and bridges, and turned the sky black.
Indonesia’s volcanology and geological hazard mitigation agency on Sunday raised the alert level for Mt. Semeru to the highest level. The agency also issued a warning to residents not to approach within 8 km of the summit, or 500 meters of riversides due to risks of lava flows.The eruption, some 640 kilometers east of the capital, Jakarta, follows a series of earthquakes in the west of Java, including one last month that killed more than 300 people.
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