The Activity Of Mount Ile Lewotolok NTT Marks Despite Alert Status

Mount Ile Lewotolok NTT can be seen from Lembata. (Nanda F-VOI)

Ile Lewotolok's volcanic activity has tended to decline in recent weeks. The mountain had emitted volcanic ash as high as 1,000 meters since the beginning of 2022.

Head of the Mount Ile Lewotolok Monitoring Post in Ile Ape Village, Stanis Arakian, said that although the sloping mountain activity in Lembata Regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) was volatile.

"This is because based on visual data and observations and seismicity, the activity of Mount Ile Lewotolok is still dominated by smoke gusts with a fluctuating tendency to decrease," Stanis said when contacted from Kupang, NTT, quoted from Antara, Friday, November 4.

Stanis added, apart from that, the eruption or volcanic eruption which is still on alert or Level III is rare.

He explained that the supply of magma was also indicated to be shrinking, with EDM's deformation data showing a tendency to deflate or deflation in the volcanic body since last September 2022.

"But even though his activities tend to decline, it still takes time to see the stability of his activities," said Stanis.

As of July 26, 2022, until now, avalanche activity has also not happened again.

And the results of monitoring with drones on October 15, 2022, are estimated to be the length of the lava flow on the Northeastern slope of about 800 meters from the lips of the eastern crater or about 1,200 meters from the center of the eruption.

He added, although it tends to decline in volcanic activity, the potential threat of danger should be watched out for by the public, such as avalanches or lava avalanches to the East and East.

Especially now that it has entered the rainy season, he continued, so the potential for landslides must be considered by the people around the foot of the mountain, such as Lamawolo village and Lamatokan village.

In addition, the potential threat of danger from hot clouds also needs to be watched out for. Because based on modeling, the range of hot clouds can reach a distance of four kilometers to the East and Northeast sectors.