Mt Ruang: Last eruptions before Wednesday occurred in 2002, 1949

This handout photograph taken and released by the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation on April 17, 2024, shows Mount Ruang releasing hot lava and smoke in Sangihe Islands as seen from Sitaro, North Sulawesi. A volcano erupted several times in Indonesia's outermost region overnight on April 17, forcing hundreds of people to be evacuated after it spewed lava and a column of smoke more than a mile into the sky. - Photo: AFP PHOTO / CENTER FOR VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOLOGICAL HAZARD MITIGATION / PVMBG

PETALING JAYA: The last eruption of Mount Ruang in Sulawesi, Indonesia, before Wednesday (April 17) was in 2002, according to the Smithsonian Institution.

Its National Museum of Natural History's Global Volcanism Programme website states that the last confirmed eruption ran from Sept 25 to approximately Sept 29, 2002.