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Mount Merapi erupted at 10:10 local time Monday morning spewing hot clouds and dark fog masses in easterly direction punctuated by loud explosions. Lt Col Soekoso Wahyudi, chief of the Boyolali district military command, was reported by Antara news as saying the explosions this time were louder than those of Sunday evening 31 October.
The rupture area of this earthquake is situated within the southern segment, where historical earthquakes include the earthquake of 1797 and the M w ~ 9.0 1833 Sumatra earthquake. [1] [10] Unlike in 2004, the tsunami caused by the October 2010 earthquake did not propagate westwards and other Indian Ocean nations were unaffected.
Mount Merapi, colour lithograph, Junghuhn and Mieling, 1853–1854. Mount Merapi (Javanese: ꦒꦸꦤꦸꦁ ꦩꦼꦫꦥꦶ, romanized: gunung měrapi, Indonesian: Gunung Merapi, lit. 'Fire Mountain') is an active stratovolcano located on the border between the province of Central Java and the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is the ...
Indonesia’s Mount Merapi erupted Sunday, spreading searing gas clouds and avalanches of lava down its slopes as other active volcanoes flared up across the country, forcing the evacuation of ...
The Philippines, one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries, is often hit by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of seismic ...
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck Saturday off the southern Philippine coast, prompting many villagers to flee their homes in panic around midnight after Philippine ...
Mount Merapi: 3 Indonesia: 1930 [13] 1,335 Taal: 3 Philippines: 1911 [14] 1,300 Gamalama: 3 Indonesia: 1775 [15] 1,200 Mount Mayon: 4 Philippines: 1814 [16] 1,151 Mount Asama: 4 Japan: 1783 Tenmei eruption: 1,000 Nevado del Ruiz: 3 Colombia: 1845 [17] 847 Mount Pinatubo: 6 Philippines: 1991 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo: 700 Hokkaido ...
Earthquake duration lasted about 7 minutes. Aftershocks experienced the whole year. [10] [11] 1645 November 30: 20:00 Luzon: 7.5 X 600 dead, 3,000 injured Dubbed as the "most terrible earthquake" in the annals of the Philippines. Greatly damaged ten newly constructed cathedrals in Manila, residential villas and buildings in the city and nearby ...