Three Indonesian volcanoes erupting at once, disrupting some flights!!
Eruptions at three volcanoes in Indonesia have darkened skies in parts
of the archipelago and disrupted some flights. Mount Rinjani on Lombok
Island near Bali, the Sinabung volcano on Sumatra Island and Mount
Gamalama in the Moluccas chain of islands have all erupted in the past couple
of days. No one has been injured, but flights
at two airports have been disrupted.
Sultan
Babullah airport in Ternate, the capital of North Maluku province, was closed
Wednesday and Lombok's international airport was closed for several hours on
Tuesday. The three mountains are among about 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia.
The archipelago of 250 million people is prone to earthquakes and volcanoes
because it sits along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," a string of faults
that lines the Pacific Ocean.
Sutopo
Purwo Nugroho, the spokesman for Indonesia's Disaster Mitigation Agency, said
that Gamalama and Sinabung erupted again late Tuesday, blasting debris high
into the air. Hot ash tumbled down the Sinabung slopes as far as 2,000 yards
southward into a river. Nugroho said that farms and trees around the three
volcanoes were covered in gray ash, but nearby towns and villages were not in
danger.
More
than 13,000 people have been evacuated due to volcanic eruptions since last
year, mostly from around the slopes of Sinabung.
Associated
Press
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