Tuesday, September 7, 2010


Sinabung eruption, North Sumatra, occurred again. This time, the volcano spewed a torrent of volcanic ash up to eight kilometer radius.
"Yeah eruption occurred again at about 00:23 pm," said Head of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) Surono told AFP on Tuesday (07/09/2010).
According to Surono, the eruption lasted up to 37 seconds. Before issuing the rain of ash, the small magnitude shallow earthquake occurred with a frequency quite often.
"A lot of shallow earthquakes. At around 21:00 pm. If the vibrations around 8 km distance, height of smoke up to 5000 meters," he added.
As a result of this explosion, electricity outages in the area. Refugee camps and coordinating the monitoring of the mountain is now only using the generator.
"Power off after 10 minutes of the eruption. Until now, at 1:30 pm. If the refugees are still within safe distance. The situation is still safely under control," the lid.
(Mad / mei)

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