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Nabiha Shahab | February 10, 2012
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Mount Lokon volcano on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island erupted early on Friday with a loud explosion and spewing ash two kilometers up in the sky, state news agency Antara reported.
The 1,578-meter volcano erupted at 8:20 a.m. and no casualties were reported.
“Volcanic activity had been increasing since yesterday before it erupted this morning” Warno, a volcano observation staff, was quoted as saying. “The height of the ash-smoke plume is estimated to be about 2,000 meters,” said Warno, who like many Indonesians goes by only one name.
Residents to the east of the crater within a 3.5-kilometer radius have been advised to vacate their homes, the Centre of Vulcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation said on its Web site.
The Indonesian archipelago is spreading along the seismically active Ring of Fire in the western Pacific, and has the world’s highest density of volcanoes. Of its 500 volcanoes, 128 are active and 65 are listed as dangerous.
Mount Lokon erupted several times last year, most recently in December, but there were no casualties.
DPA
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