Mount Anak Krakatau Consumes More Often, The Banten Police Ask Citizens To Be More Alert

The eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau in Lampung. (ANTARA/HO-PVMBG)

JAKARTA - The Banten Police asked coastal residents to be aware of the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau (GAK) in the South Waters of Sundanese to avoid the volcanic eruption. "Based on information from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation (PVMBG), GAK erupted again on Thursday (05/01) at around 00.13 WIB," said Banten Police Public Relations Head Kombes Shinto Silitonga in his statement in Serang, Thursday, January 5.

The Banten Police received a letter from the Geological Agency of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources that the GAK eruption occurred on Thursday (5/01) at 00.13 WIB with an eruptive column height of 750 meters above the peak or about 907 meters above sea level (masl).

In addition, the column of ash that was observed was gray with moderate to thick intensity to the northeast.

In fact, previously GAK experienced an eruption on Wednesday (04/01) at 15.00 WIB as many as two eruptions with volcanic ash bursts reaching 3,000 meters from above the peak and the eruption was recorded on a seismogram with a maximum amplitude of 65 millimeters with a duration of 1 minute 37 seconds. The eruption of the volcano in the Sunda Strait waters also occurred at 14.10 WIB on the same day as the height of 100 meters ash. "We urge the public not to approach GAK or move within a radius of five kilometers from the active crater," Shinto said as quoted by Antara. Meanwhile, a number of fishermen from Labuan Pandeglang Bay said that they are currently still catching fish into the Sunda Strait, but did not approach the GAK area.

Because, at this time, we are not experiencing coughs or eruptions, so it is dangerous if we approach the Mount Merapi. "We are used to fishing in the Sunda Strait, but do not approach GAK, especially emitting gray white smoke eruptions," said Dudung (45), a fisherman in Labuan Pandeglang Bay.