Hot Clouds Falling Mount Merapi Glides As Far As 2.5 Km

JAKARTA - Mount Merapi on the border of Central Java Province and the Special Region of Yogyakarta launched hot clouds of avalanches with a sliding distance of 2.5 kilometers (km) to the southwest on Thursday, July 29. As reported by Antara, the Head of the Geological Disaster Technology Research and Development Center ( BPPTKG), Hanik Humaida through his official statement in Yogyakarta, Thursday, said the hot cloud avalanche occurred at 00.53 WIB. "The hot cloud avalanche was recorded on the seismogram with an amplitude of 57 mm and a duration of 198 seconds," he said. At 06.00 WIB, incandescent lava avalanches were also observed 15 times sliding from Mount Merapi with a maximum distance of 200 meters to the southwest.

The active volcano was also recorded to have experienced one hot cloud earthquake with an amplitude of 57 mm for 198 seconds, 56 avalanches with an amplitude of 4-45 mm for 21-174 seconds, 14 times a multi-phase earthquake with an amplitude of 79 mm for 5.4-8.6. seconds. Next, 21 shallow volcanic earthquakes with an amplitude of 30-75 mm for 8.2-20 seconds and one distant tectonic earthquake with an amplitude of 5 mm for 58.2 seconds. Until now, BPPTKG still maintains the status of Mount Merapi at level III or standby. Lava and hot clouds of Mount Merapi are expected to have an impact on the south-southwest sector which includes the Yellow, Boyong, Bedog, Krasak, Bebeng, and Putih rivers. kilometers from the top of the mountain.