He doesn’t stop. Mount Ruang, a volcano in northern Indonesia, erupted several times on Tuesday, according to the archipelago’s Volcanology Agency, leading to evacuations, the closure of a nearby international airport and a rise in water levels. alert.
Since early April, Mount Ruang has erupted more than half a dozen times, prompting the evacuation of more than 6,000 people. Authorities had said he still posed a risk.
Ashes more than five kilometers high
Ruang, located in the Indonesian province of North Sulawesi, erupted around 1:15 a.m. local time on the night of Monday to Tuesday and twice on Tuesday morning, the volcanology agency said in a statement. He threw a column of ashes more than five kilometers into the air. A six-kilometer exclusion zone around the volcano, which rises to 725 meters above sea level, has been re-established.
According to the agency, residents should be aware of “the risk of projection of incandescent rocks, hot clouds and tsunamis due to materials (related to) the eruption entering the sea”.
Images released by the agency show a molten red column shooting into the sky, a large cloud of ash escaping from the crater and incandescent embers near homes.
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Authorities have again closed Sam Ratulangi International Airport in the regional capital of Manado, more than 100 kilometers away, state air traffic control body AirNav Indonesia informed. Indonesia, a vast archipelago in Southeast Asia, is located on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an area of significant volcanic activity.