Re: Mount Merapi Alert level raised to highest stage
Re: Mount Merapi Alert level raised to highest stage
Mount Merapi erupts Already?
Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 18:26
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, Yogyakarta - Mount Merapi, since otherwise watch out or the status of supreme danger, Tuesday,
around 17:00 pm seen with visible brown colored thick smoke into the southwest of Magelang.
According to Observation Post officer in the Village of Mount Merapi whole observatories, Boyolali, Tri Mujianto, explains, the peak of Mount Merapi, since around 17:00 am until now issued a brown haze to the southwest or Magelang.
According to him, which dikeluarka brown smoke from the summit of Merapi is now covered with thick fog and clouds seen from the Pos whole observatories. So, it did not know whether the thick smoke that brown color, an eruption or not.
"We're still waiting for further developments of information from the Central Investigation and Technology Development Kegunungapian (BPPTK) in Yogyakarta," said Tri.
While Commander Kodim 724 Boyolali, Lieutenant Colonel (ARH) Soekoso Wahyudi, explains, the condition of Merapi is increasing, after receiving information BPPTK,
suspected of having erupted tonight.
Republika
Merapi Starts spraying
TRIBUNNEWS.COM, YOGYAKARTA - Merapi began to rampage. Promptly at 17:02 pm,
Merapi began to launch a hot cloud. Residents were panicked and immediately evacuated to post evacuation.
"Merapi began erupting at 17:02 pm with out hot clouds. At 17:02 pm it was
the beginning of the Merapi eruption since the status of the alert was raised to be alert," said Chief BPPTK Yogyakarta, Subanrdiyo to Tribunnews.com, Tuesday (26/10/2010).
Explained Subandriyo, Merapi
eruption of hot material that slid down the slope. "Material followed hot hot clouds," said Subandriyo.
Regarding the hot clouds glide direction, BPPTK not know for sure. "Heat clouds are very thick, so do not know leads to nowhere," said Subandriyo.
Since the eruption at 17:02 pm, Merapi continued to launch the hot material or eruption. That is at 17:19 am, at 17:23 pm and 17.30 pm. And possibly, hot lava will continue to happen.
From pantaun Tribunnews reporters at the scene, on southern slopes of the region began raining ash. Areas affected by ash falls, among others Turgo, Kinahrejo, Ngrangkah, and Samburejo. Hundreds of residents are now in the process of evacuation to the barracks.
A small number still survive to monitor the final seconds when a large eruption occurred. Dark night, thick clouds made the situation a bit tense. Merapi summit closed at this time a thick cloud and not be seen visually. The wind was blowing on the southern slope to the west.
Tribunnews
Merapi erupts
26/10/2010 18:55
Liputan6.com, Yogyakarta: Merapi volcano erupts with clouds of heat release on Tuesday (26/10). The eruption occurred 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 stop," said Head of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation of Geological Surono in Yogyakarta.
According to Surono, the emergence of the hot cloud is a sign as the eruption of Mount Merapi. The first heat clouds that showed up at 17:02 pm was heading west. But the next hot clouds can not be monitored well as weather conditions at the peak of Merapi quite dark and raining.
Siren danger in Kaliurang, Sleman, rang at 17:57 pm. At 18:05 am, Hall Kegunungapian Investigation and Technology Development (BPPTK) Yogyakarta withdraw all personnel from the observation post.
"In 2006, hot clouds occur for seven minutes, but at this year's hot clouds have occurred more than 20 minutes," said Surono.
The duration of hot clouds 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 has been ascertained," said Surono.
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