Mount Merapi Released 200 Meters Of Material Fall

DOCK. ANTARA / Mount Merapi

YOGYAKARTA - The Geological Disaster Technology Research and Development Center (BPPTKG) said Mount Merapi on the border of Yogyakarta and Central Java has issued a material avalanche. Distance 200 meters to the west.

Head of BPPTKG Hanik Humaida, through his official statement on Tuesday, stated that the avalanche of material was recorded as leaving Mount Merapi at 09:17 WIB in a voice heard from the Mount Merapi Observation Post (PGM) Babadan.

"I just confirmed with the observer, the avalanche was to the west with a sliding distance of 200 meters," Hanik said as quoted by Antara, Tuesday, December 8.

Apart from the avalanches of material, during the observation period from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. WIB, the BPPTKG also recorded five earthquake avalanches on the mountain with an amplitude of 4-45 mm and a duration of 15.3-79.8 seconds, six times earthquake gusts with an amplitude of 3-10 mm with a duration of 11-15 seconds.

Next, 49 hybrid / multi-phase earthquakes with an amplitude of 3-25 mm with a duration of 6.4-11.4 seconds, and 12 shallow volcanic earthquakes with an amplitude of 40-75 mm for 14.4-32.4 seconds.

Meanwhile, visual observations show that the crater smoke is white with a thick intensity and is 50 meters high above the crater peak.

The weather on the mountain was clear. The wind is blowing weak to moderate to the east with air temperatures of 22.5-30.7 degrees Celsius, humidity 41-68 percent and air pressure 625.2-708 mmHg.

The BPPTKG maintains the status of Mount Merapi at Level III or Alert. The potential hazard due to the eruption of Merapi is estimated to be within a maximum radius of five kilometers from the summit.

It is recommended that mining in the river channels that originate at Mount Merapi in KRB III is stopped.

BPPTKG asks tourism actors not to carry out tourism activities at KRB III, including climbing activities to the top of Mount Merapi.