Indonesia's Mount Semeru erupted again on Wednesday, sending an ash column roughly 1,000 meters into the air, 中国新闻网 reports, citing the country's Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation.
According to the center's monitoring data, the volcano also erupted at 11:12 a.m. local time that day, producing an ash plume about 700 meters high that drifted westward. Seismographs recorded four other eruptions during the day, though no visual footage of those events was captured.
The agency is urging people to stay out of a five-kilometer radius around the crater and to avoid a danger zone extending 13 kilometers to the southeast. It also warned residents to remain alert for pyroclastic flows, lava avalanches and volcanic mudflows.
The notice comes from the same agency that tracks seismic and visual activity at Semeru, one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes. Its guidance is based on the day's monitoring record, which combined observed eruptions with instrument-detected events.
Authorities have not indicated any change to the alert level in the reporting. What to watch next is whether the center issues further eruption notices or adjusts its exclusion zones as monitoring continues.
