JAMBI - Mount Kerinci erupted again on Friday 3 February. The volcanic activity in Jambi Province was accompanied by a tremor with an amplitude of 0.5 to eight millimeters. Mount Kerinci Observation Post officer Irwan said this eruption occurred at around 02.30 WIB, Friday 3 February. However, the height of the ash pond was not observed. "This eruption was recorded on a seismogram with a maximum amplitude of 8 mm and a duration of approximately four minutes," he said in Jambi, Friday, February 3, confiscated by Antara.
He explained that currently Mount Kerinci is at level two. His party appealed to the public and tourists not to climb the crater at the peak of Mount Kerinci within a radius of three kilometers from the active crater. It is better if the flight path around Mount Kerinci is avoided, because at any time it still has the potential for ash eruptions with heights that can disrupt the flight path. Previously, Mount Kerinci was observed to experience an eruption on January 14, 2023 with a column height of ash observed 750 meters above the peak.
The ash column was observed to be gray with thick intensity leaning towards the southwest and west. This eruption was recorded on a seismogram with a maximum amplitude of 3 mm and a temporary duration of 11 minutes 40 seconds. Meanwhile, the impact of the eruption of Mount Kerinci was acknowledged by the Head of the Sungai Rumpun Village, Gunung Tujuh Herman District. He said the eruption material was hoarding rice fields in the village.
"Yes, it is true that the rest of the volcanic ash was carried away from the peak of Mount Kerinci to the residents' fields," he said. He said that since the eruption of Mount Kerinci began in October 2022, about 20 times the flood of Mount Kerinci's material in his village had already occurred five times. The smell of sulfur," he said. As a result of the flood of Mount Kerinci's eruption material, he said, about 25 hectares of rice fields were affected.
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