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Merapi volcano
Stratovolcano 2968 m / 9,737 ft
Central Java, Indonesia, -7.54°S / 110.44°E
Current status: erupting (4 out of 5)
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Merapi volcano eruptions:
1548, 1554, 1560, 1584, 1586(?), 1587, 1658, 1663, 1672, 1678, 1745, 1752, 1755, 1768, 1791, 1797, 1807, 1810, 1812-22, 1822-23, 1828, 1832-36, 1837-38, 1840, 1846, 1848(?), 1849, 1854(?), 1861, 1862-64, 1865-71, 1872 (large vulcanian-subplinian eruption VEI:4) , 1872-73, 1878-79, 1883-84, 1885-87, 1888, 1889, 1891-92, 1893, 1894, 1897, 1902, 1902-04, 1905, 1906-07, 1908, 1909-13, 1915, 1918, 1920-21, 1922, 1923(?), 1924, 1930-31, 1932, 1933-35, 1939-40, 1942-45, 1948, 1953-58, 1961, 1967-1970, 1971(?), 1972-85, 1986-90, 1992-2002, April-July 2006, Oct 2010-2011 Feb, 2018 (May), late 2018 - ongoing
Typical eruption style:
Highly explosive. Large Plinian eruption every few 1000 of years (the last ones at about 1000 BP and 2000 BP), sometimes with associated flank collapse. Growth of lava domes, pyroclastic flows.

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Merapi volcano (Java, Indonesia): block-and-ash flows

Thu, 7 Jan 2021, 08:02
08:02 AM | BY: MARTIN
Block-and-ash flows from Merapi volcano today (image: @BPPTKG)
Block-and-ash flows from Merapi volcano today (image: @BPPTKG)
Visibility of the block-and-ash flows from Merapi volcano was limited due to dense clouds (image: @BPPTKG)
Visibility of the block-and-ash flows from Merapi volcano was limited due to dense clouds (image: @BPPTKG)
The activity of the volcano continues at elevated levels.
Increased seismic activity during the past few days had been more frequent under the lava dome in the summit crater that produced a series of glowing avalanches from its flanks as we reported in the last update.
Expected dangerous hot pyroclastic flows occurred at 08:02 and 12:50 local time today likely as a result of gravitational collapse of the lava dome caused by more frequent volcano-tectonic earthquakes.
Block-and-ash flows continue to descend over the upper slopes towards Kali Krasak direction about 300 m long, phoenix clouds rose to estimated 10,170 ft (3,100 m) altitude as can be seen in the video recorded.
Source: Pusat Vulkanologi dan Mitigasi Bencana Geologi volcano activity update 7 January 2021
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Thu, 7 Jan 2021, 06:00
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Satellite image of Kadovar volcano on 7 Jan 2021
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