After Deposing Status To Early Alert 2023, Mount Ile Lewotolok Eruption 2 Times

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

NTT - Mount Ile Lewotolok in Lembata Regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province has experienced an increase after its status was lowered from Alert to Alert in the last few days.

"The seismic activity rose in the form of a brother gust earthquake. It has been monitored in recent days," said Head of the Mount Ile Lewotolok Monitoring Post Stanis Arakian, Tuesday, January 17, as reported by Antara.

Arakian said that the seismic activity on Mount Ile Lewotolok was not significant after the eruption in November 2020.

He said, after the status change on Mount Ile Lewotolok from Alert to Alert in early January, there had been two eruptions.

"The height of the gust reaches 400 meters above the top of the crater, which is accompanied by a weak roar and incandescent lava," he added.

The first eruption with a incandescent lava height of up to 400 meters occurred on Saturday, January 7. Meanwhile, the second eruption occurred on Monday, January 16, at 20.35 WITA.

Arakian added that although the status of Mount Ile Lewotolok is in Alert status, the people around Mount Ili Lewotolok and visitors, climbers, tourists do not enter and do not carry out activities within a two-kilometer radius of the mountain activity center.

Meanwhile, people who are under the foot of a mountain such as the people of Lamawolo Village, Lamatokan Village, and Jontona Village should always be aware of the potential threat of danger from avalanches or avalanches of lava and hot clouds from the eastern part of the peak or crater of the mountain.

In addition, considering that currently the rainfall is still very high, people who live around valleys or rivers that originate at the top of the mountain are always aware of the potential threat of lava that can occur.