May 28, 2006



If you have Google Earth (easy to download! and very modern it is too) .. just put in Yoghakarta, Indonesia and go 30 miles directly North with the hand. You can see actual satellite views of the lava flowing and just how big the cloud is ... It's next a city of half a million and extremely dangerous. Virginia


Merapi, Indonesia

Indonesia's Merapi volcano releases a huge cloud of hot gas as seen from the Kali Adem village, near Indonesia city of Yogyakarta

May 15, 2006.

Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano spewed lava and hot ash early on Monday, a regional official said.


MOUNT MERAPI, Central Java (AP): Mount Merapi belched out massive clouds of black smoke and lava flows scorched fresh scars in its slopes, but many villagers ignored warnings of a major eruption and returned home to tend animals and crops. Even as the volcano's activity increased, scores of curious onlookers traveled by motorcycle, car and foot to its slopes, eager to see from a safe distance the mountain's awesome power. Vulcanologists raised Merapi's alert status to the highest level on Saturday (May 27) after it began spewing burning ash, rock and red-hot gases, and thousands of women, children and the elderly were immediately shuttled by bus and trucks to emergency shelters. Merapi last erupted in 1994, sending out a searing cloud of gas that burned 60 people to death. About 1,300 people were killed when it erupted in 1930. (Story via AP)

Location: 7.5S, 110.4E
Elevation: 9,548 feet (2,911 m)





Merapi is a stratovolcano in central Java. Merapi has had 68 historic eruption since 1548. The current eruption began in 1987. Because of Merapi's violent past and its close proximity to Yogyakarta it was designated a Decade Volcano and is the target of increased research efforts. Photo by Jack Lockwood, U.S. Geological Survey, September 6, 1982.

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