(Reuters) — Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung erupted on Tuesday (September 15), sending volcanic ash three kilometers into the air.
Footage on local television network, Metro TV, showed ash covering a residential area nearby.
Activity of the volcano remains at “dangerous”, the highest alert level, spokesman of Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.
BNPB said this was the biggest eruption since June. More than 2,500 people were evacuated at the time of the June eruption and no further evacuations were expected after the latest eruption on Tuesday.
Mount Sinabung became active again in 2010 after being dormant for centuries. At least 11 people were killed in an eruption in February last year.
Sinabung is one of nearly 130 active volcanoes in the world’s most populous country, which stands along the “Ring of Fire” volcanic belt around the shores of the Pacific Ocean.