Indonesia raises alert level against volcano eruption !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF...This story was posted 30 minutes ago but USGS shows no earthquake...


[link to www.newstime.co.za]
Indonesia struck by Earthquake amid urgent Volcano warnings

Indonesia is in the “wars” again with the Sydney Morning Herald reporting Monday of a strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake which has struck Sulawesi - one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands.

This coming on the same day that warnings over Mount Merapi - literally Mountain of Fire – are being issued. Merapi is set to erupt at any time which has prompted calls for the evacuation of thousands of villagers living on the mountain's slopes.

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

It did! as I copied and pasted into another thread on another forum
But the link I posted to source this, has gone :(

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]



Magnitude

6.1

Date-Time
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 12:05:28 UTC
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 09:05:28 PM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location
0.081°S, 125.088°E

Depth
32 km (19.9 miles)

Region
MOLUCCA SEA

Distances
175 km (110 miles) S of Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia
235 km (145 miles) ESE of Gorontalo, Sulawesi, Indonesia
1515 km (940 miles) NNW of DARWIN, Northern Territory, Australia
2130 km (1330 miles) ENE of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
Location Uncertainty




I did notice they have taken it off USGS

They have downgraded it to a 5.7

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

it's been downgraded to 5.7

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

snap

Here is a link with the satellite view of merapi...

[link to www.merapi.bgl.esdm.go.id]

Klyuchevskoy volcano spews 9 kilometer-high ash columns

Oct 24, 2010

"The Klyuchevskoy volcano on Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia’s Far East, is spewing columns of ash from its crater to a height of up to nine kilometers, with ash plumes stretching in different directions from the restive mountain for hundreds of kilometers. In the past 24 hours seismologists have registered no less than 100 underground vibrations at the site..."

[link to english.ruvr.ru]

let me know when it erupts

is there a live cam,then get one there now.

By time extimation this volcano explodes 10 min ago!

30000 feet eh?

nice.

Indonesian authorities have evacuated thousands of people from a region around a volcano that is threatening to erupt on the island of Java.

Seismologists said on Monday that Mount Merapi could erupt at any time, and its alert status has been raised to red, the highest level.

"The magma has been pushed upwards due to the escalating seismic energy and it's about a kilometre below the crater," Surono, a government volcanologist, said.

Authorities have ordered 19,000 residents within a danger zone of 10km from the crater to leave.

About 3,000 people are already living in temporary camps due to the threat posed by the volcano.

Frequent threats

"The evacuation has been under way since this morning. We put a priority on children, women and elderly," Widi Sutikno, a field co-ordinator of the main Sleman district, told the AFP news agency.

Step Vassen, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Jakarta, the capital, said: "Most residents are still in their villages. That's because this happens a lot, this volcano is erupting many times in the last couple of years and people have been evacuated only to have to return home.

"So people are quite reluctant to leave.

"The most dangerous part of this volcano is very hot clouds released by the mountain that can reach up to 500 degrees Celsius and they have a high speed of up to 200 km per hour. And these clouds have killed the most people in the last year."

Mount Merapi last erupted in 2006, killing two people. However, 60 people died in 1994 and in 1930 1,300 people were killed in eruptions.

Yanto, a 38-year-old resident, said he would stay in his village in order to tend his sheep.

"I haven't seen any visible threats from Merapi. It is better for young men like me to stay here to look after our livestock. If the volcano does erupt, we can escape quickly," he said.

"Let the children and old people go first to a safer place."

There are about 129 active volcanoes in Indonesia.


[link to english.aljazeera.net]

Indonesia really burping [link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

Magnitude 7.5 (Preliminary magnitude — update expected within 15 minutes)
Date-Time Monday, October 25, 2010 at 14:42:25 UTC
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 09:42:25 PM at epicenter

Location 3.100°S, 100.200°E
Depth 33 km (20.5 miles) set by location program
Region KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA

Last Edited by Me on 10/25/2010 10:56 AM

MAG 7.5 2010/10/25 14:42:25 -3.100 100.200 33.0 KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA

is this near the volcano?

Wow!!!! Felt in Singapore too

Nah it is quite a distance
But still .....


( Edit: sorry Google map link didn't work )

Last Edited by Me on 10/25/2010 11:01 AM

maybe we'll get lucky and it will go off when Obamaboy is there.

JUST NEXT TO!!!!!!

in geological terms....!

1249.01 km next to

yeah, in those terms I'm just next to New Zealand too.

Think she is about to blow.. They keep zooming in on the top of the volcano..

I wonder how far away from Toba this is?

There has just been another 7.5, same region.

[link to hisz.rsoe.hu]

Hope the EQ doesn't set it off

Nah it's the same one, it's just doubled on the Alert Map, they sometimes have glitches like this :/

The co-ordinates and depths are different

Ahh I see, Toba is in Northern Sumatra and Merapi is in central Java.

Different islands.

Is this a big Volcano? How big will the eruption be?

it's a monster, but historically the eruptions have been bad, but not THAT bad.

all indonesian volcanoes have the potential to 'do a Tambora' though.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

this volcano has two magma chambers too

a shallow one, and a deep one.