The Sinabung volcano threw a column of smoke and ash 2800 meters into the sky over the island of Sumatra in Indonesia on Friday morning.
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The volcano, which rises to 2,460 meters in the north of the island, began to emit smoke and volcanic material around 9:00 a.m. local time (2:00 GMT) in an eruption that lasted about six minutes, according to the local agency. of geology.
Images showed a thick gray column rising from the crater dispersing in a large plume to the east.
The authorities did not issue an evacuation order, and the eruption did not disrupt air links. Indonesian authorities have maintained the volcano's alert level at level three on a scale of four and are barring access to an area five kilometers in radius around its crater. "
Residents and tourists should not be around Mount Sinabung or evacuated villages because the activity of the volcano remains high,
" Muhammad Nurul Asrori, an official in charge of monitoring the volcano, told AFP.
The Sinabung lay dormant for several centuries before waking up in 2010 in an eruption that killed two people.
The volcano has experienced two other fatal eruptions, one in 2014 killing at least 16 people and the other in 2016 with seven other victims.
There are 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands and islets.
The country is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of strong seismic activity and volcanic eruptions, where three large tectonic plates converge (Indo-Pacific, Australian, Eurasian).