Lava flows down from the crater of Indonesia's most active volcano Mount Merapi, seen from Kedungsriti in Sleman, outside Yogyakarta on March 11, 2022. - AFP
YOGYAKARTA, March 11 (AP): Indonesia’s Mount Merapi continued to erupt Friday, forcing authorities to halt tourism and mining activities on the slopes of the country’s most active volcano.
The volcano on the densely populated island of Java unleashed clouds of hot ash shortly before midnight Wednesday into early morning Thursday and fast-moving pyroclastic flows - a mixture of rock, lava and gas - traveled up to 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) down its slopes.
It was Mount Merapi’s biggest lava flow since authorities raised its danger level in November 2020, said Hanik Humaida, the head of Yogyakarta’s Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center.
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