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Jakarta — A volcano successful eastbound Indonesia erupted Monday, emitting an ash unreality much than fractional of a mile precocious aft authorities enactment the surrounding country connected the highest level of alert, informing different almighty eruption could inactive beryllium successful store. Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki connected the tourer land of Flores erupted soon aft midnight, sending an ash unreality 0.7 miles supra its peak, Indonesia's volcanology bureau reported.
The volcano erupted erstwhile much astatine 9:36 a.m. section clip (10:36 p.m. eastbound connected Sunday), the bureau said.
The latest rumblings travel authorities connected Sunday evening raising the alert level for the 5,197-foot twin-peaked volcano to the highest successful the country's four-tiered system.
"Lewotobi Laki-Laki's activities are inactive high," Indonesia's geological bureau caput Muhammad Wafid warned Sunday. "The imaginable for a larger eruption than earlier tin occur."
Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupts, spewing volcanic ash, arsenic seen from Nobo colony successful East Flores, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, May 18, 2025.
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A bid of eruptions connected Sunday spewed ash implicit three-and-a-half miles supra Laki-Laki's peak, according to the volcanology agency.
Wafid urged residents to deterioration look masks to support themselves from volcanic ash, portion telling radical not to transportation retired immoderate activities wrong astir 3 miles of the crater.
The geological bureau main besides warned of the anticipation of hazardous lahar floods — a benignant of mud oregon debris travel — if dense rainfall occurs, peculiarly for communities astir rivers that originate astatine the volcano's peak.
In November, Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupted aggregate times, sidesplitting 9 people, cancelling scores of planetary flights to Bali and forcing the evacuation of thousands.
There was nary contiguous confirmation of formation disruptions connected Monday, but the Volcanic Ash Advisory Center successful Darwin, Australia, which is liable nether the planetary advisory web for the portion including Indonesia, did issue a reddish alert notice, indicating imaginable impacts.
A reddish alert nether the VAAC web indicates an eruption is apt oregon already underway "with important emanation of ash into the atmosphere."
Laki-Laki, which means antheral successful Indonesian, is twinned with the calmer but taller 5,587-foot volcano named Perempuan, aft the Indonesian connection for woman.
Indonesia, a immense archipelago nation, experiences predominant seismic and volcanic enactment owed to its presumption connected the Pacific "Ring of Fire".
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