Indonesian Breaking News: Mount Merapi Erupts

Indonesian Breaking News: Mount Merapi Erupts, An active volcano in Indonesia, Merapi volcano erupts with clouds of heat release recorded since at 17:02 pm. "From 17:02 am until 17:34 pm happened four times to the present cloud of heat and hot clouds continue to emerge one after another after not stopping" said Surono, head Pisat Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Agency for Geology in Yogyakarta, Tuesday, October 26, 2010.

According to him, the emergence of the hot cloud is a sign of the eruption of Mount Merapi. The first heat clouds that showed up at 17:02 pm heading west. But the next hot clouds that can not be monitored well as weather conditions at the peak of Merapi quite dark and raining.

Alarm siren in Sleman, Yogyakarta rang at 17:57 pm. Then at 18:05 pm Central Investigation and Indonesian Volcano Technology Development in Yogyakarta branch withdraw all personnel from the observation post.

"In 2006, hot clouds occur for seven minutes. But this year, with hot clouds had occurred more than 20 minutes" he said.

The duration of the hot cloud, he added, showed considerable energy. At 18:00 pm there was an eruption three times the sound of the postal and postal Selo whole observatories followed by smoke billowing as high as 1.5 kilometers heading south. "This type of explosive eruptions of Merapi ascertained" he said.

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