Indonesia’s isolated Mount Ruang volcano has erupted numerous times, according to the country’s volcanology service, forcing evacuations, closing a nearby international airport, and boosting the warning level to the highest.
Ruang, in Indonesia’s far-flung North Sulawesi province, erupted at 1715 GMT on Monday and again on Tuesday morning, according to the volcanology department.
According to the report, the volcano ejected an ash tower over five kilometers into the sky.
Authorities warned that the volcano’s threat was far from finished after it erupted more than half a dozen times this month, forcing more than 6,000 people to evacuate.
The agency also restored a six-kilometer exclusion zone. Locals should be aware of “the potential for ejections of incandescent rocks, hot clouds, and tsunamis due to eruption material entering the sea”. More than 800 people live in Ruang, and all of them were evacuated this month.
It was unknown how many residents had returned and how many had been forced to evacuate once more.
According to a warning from state-run air traffic control operator AirNav Indonesia, Ruang’s recent eruption has also caused authorities to close Sam Ratulangi International Airport once again.
According to the announcement, the airport was closed due to “Ruang volcanic ash”. The airport at Manado, the regional capital, is around 100 km away.
Indonesia, a huge archipelago nation, is subject to regular seismic and volcanic activity due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”.
