Mount Semeru Erupts With Volcanic Ash Eruption As High As 600 Meters

Mount Semeru when it erupted with an eruption as high as 600 meters above the peak on Tuesday (26/11/2024) night. BETWEEN/HO-PVMBG.

Mount Semeru, which is on the border of Lumajang Regency and Malang, East Java, erupted again with an eruption as high as 600 meters above the peak.

"There was an eruption of Mount Semeru on Tuesday, November 26, 2024, at 20.35 WIB with an eruption column height of about 600 meters above the peak or 4,276 meters above sea level," said Mount Semeru Observation Post Officer Sigit Rian Alfian as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, November 26.

According to him, the column of volcanic ash was observed to be white to gray with thick intensity to the north and northeastern. The eruption was recorded on a seismograph with a maximum amplitude of 22 mm and a duration of 133 seconds.

Based on officers' records, the eruption of Mount Semeru on Tuesday from 00.57 WIB to 20.35 WIB was 16 times, and most of the eruption visuals were not observed because they were covered in fog, even only once the eruption was accompanied by an eruption at 20.35 WIB.

Mount Semeru is still on alert status, so the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) provides a number of recommendations, namely that people are prohibited from carrying out any activities in the southeast sector along the Besuk Kobokan collision as far as eight kilometers from the summit (the center of the eruption).

Furthermore, outside this distance, people are not allowed to carry out activities at a distance of 500 meters from the riverbank (river border) along Besuk Kobokan, because it has the potential to be affected by the expansion of hot clouds and lava flows up to a distance of 13 kilometers from the summit.

"People are also not allowed to move within a radius of three kilometers from the crater/peak of Mount Semeru, because they are prone to the dangers of throwing incandescent stones," he said.