TNGGP Ensures Normal Mount Gede-Pangrango Activities, Not Related to Cianjur's Explosion

CIANJUR - The Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park (TNGGP) Headquarters ensures that the activity of Mount Gede-Pangrango is still normal and there is no volcanic activity so it is not related to loud bangs and flashes of light that have made people restless.

Public Relations of the TNGGP Headquarters, Agus Deni, said that the mysterious sound and light that occurred in the Puncak Cianjur area was not caused by the volcanic activity of Mount Gede-Pangrango.

"The results of observations and data sources from the Geological Agency, PVMKG, and ESDM, confirm that the activity of Mount Gede-Pangrango is still normal or Level 1, so there is no relation to the sound of thunder and flashes of light on Monday night," he said as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, January 6.

Based on reports from the guard, he said, the sound and flash of light were suspected to have come from the Ciloto-Puncak area, Cipanas District, precisely from behind the hills which were estimated to have entered the Bogor area.

Officers said they heard a loud bang and a flash of reddish light, but it didn't last long. It was only a matter of seconds and there was no follow-up until the change of day.

"It is true that there was a rumbling sound and a loud bang followed by a flash of red light in the sky and not in the national park area," he said.

It was reported that residents in several sub-districts in the north of Cianjur, namely in Pacet, Cipanas, and Sukaresmi sub-districts, had heard a sound of thunder on Monday evening at around 22.15 WIB, so they scattered out of their houses.

Not long after, residents saw a reddish glow in the sky, so they chose to stay outside the house for quite a while for fear of something undesirable happening, until around midnight most of the residents went back inside.

"The sound was rumbling accompanied by a fairly loud bang, so we ran out of the house, in a matter of seconds followed by a flash of reddish light in the sky," said Cipanas resident Dede Sandi.

Meanwhile, the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) recorded a loud bang and a reddish flash of light that occurred in the northern area of Cianjur related to atmospheric and geophysical phenomena, although it has not found the exact trigger.

PVMBG's Earth Utama investigator, Supartoyo, said that the loud noise and reddish light that had been seen and felt by the public in a number of sub-districts in the northern Cianjur area were allegedly triggered by electromagnetic energy phenomena.