Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano spewed avalanches of hot clouds in eruptions overnight Thursday that forced about 250 residents to flee to temporary shelters and left ash blanketing nearby villages and towns. No casualties were reported.
The volcano on the densely populated island of Java unleashed clouds of hot ash at least seven times just before and after midnight and fast-moving pyroclastic flows, a mixture of rock, lava and gas, traveled up to 5 kilometers down its slopes, said National Disaster Mitigation Agency's spokesperson Abdul Muhari in a statement. The rumbling sound could be heard several kilometers away.
Ash from the eruption blanketed several nearby villages and towns and no casualties were reported, Muhari said. Mount Merapi is the most active of more than 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia and has repeatedly erupted with lava and gas clouds recently. The Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center did not raise Merapi's alert status, which already was at the second-highest of four levels since it began erupting last November.
Merapi's last major eruption in 2010 killed 347 people and caused the evacuation of 20,000 villagers.
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