Mount Merapi, the most active volcano in Indonesia erupted Tuesday injuring several people. According to Subandriyo, the areas chief vulcanologist, the volcano started to erupt just before dusk Tuesday; it had rumbling and groaning for hours. The exploding ash caused a lot of commotion because even those who can't see the mountain have large amounts of ash falling around them. The last blast from Mount Merapi occured in 1994 and was caused by the lava dome collapsing. 70 people were killed in that eruption. This eruption just adds to the damage in Indonesia. Officials are already dealing with damage from a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that caused a tsunami off western Indonesia, leaving scores of villagers dead or missing.
Posted by Christine Steinbeiss
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