[Video] Amazing Scenes of Friday’s Sinabung Volcanic Eruption

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Mount Sinabung is one of 129 active volcanoes in Indonesia, a country which sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire.” After lying dormant for 400 years, it has reawakened to much fanfare, erupting frequently over the last six years. On Friday, 26th of Feb it erupted twice, spewing volcanic ash and smoke that rose as high as 3,000 meters; Indonesian authorities placed the area around the volcano on the highest alert level since June 2010.

 

Worryingly, the volcano has shown increasing levels of activity; these blasts were some of  the largest and closest apart since it had started acting up again. A volcanologist at the Sinabung observation post, Agus Salihin, states that the eruption is the biggest since the beginning of 2015.
Explosion from Sinabung on 25 Feb (image: Endro Lewa / facebook)
Eruption with lightning on 25 Feb (image: Endro Lewa / facebook)
Destroyed houses in Simacem (photo: Andi / VolcanoDiscovery Indonesia)

The Indonesian government has declared a 3.5km-wide radius from the peak to be a red-alert, high-risk danger zone. Hundreds of farmers who were living nearby were relocated about 2 years ago.

Only a church stands in the abandoned village of Simacem 

Sources: Volcano Discovery, Daily Express, Jakarta Post, The Atlantic


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