Mount Marapi Still Remove Smoke

Mount Marapi, West Sumatra, still emit thick white smoke as high as 50-100 meters, at about 09.00 am on Thursday.
BETWEEN watchlist in Sungaipuar, Agam regency, which is under the foot of the mountain, until the news was revealed white smoke continued to come out of the crater. Only the mountain as high as 2891 meters above sea level (masl) is no longer issuing volcanic ash eruption pascatimbulnya on Wednesday (3 / 8) then.
Geological Agency officer of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation, Warseno, said the mountain is still set alert level II status.
"Alert status was determined considering the mountain thick white smoke still coming out of the crater," he said.
He said, in order to determine the condition of the mountain on a continuous basis, a review of the field is still routinely performed every day.
"Increased activity of the mountain we can not guess when it happened, for it directly to the field monitoring will continue," he said.
He said, although volcanic activity began to decline by no longer occur seismicity, residents and hikers are not allowed to climb more than three kilometers from the summit.
Increased activity of Mount Merapi, which is located in Tanah Datar and Agam regency, West Sumatra that has occurred since August 3, 2011.
Mount it was spitting out volcanic ash smelling sulfur reaches 1,000 meters and reach a number of areas in West Sumatra as Agam regency, Tanah Datar, Pariaman, Padangpariaman District, and City Padangpanjang.
Volcanic ash is also closed dozens of hectares of garden vegetables such as peppers, tomatoes, cabbage, carrots and vegetables is five millimeters thick. Then on Saturday (6 / 8) at around 08.00 am, Mount Marapi back thicker shoot ash as high as about 300 meters from the crater.
The area is a conservation area of ​​Mount Merapi in West Sumatra, the Nature Reserve Marapi. Since the late 18th century until 2008, it recorded the mountain already erupted 454 times, of which 50 of them in a large scale.
The mountain is also frequented by hikers, especially on holidays and the turn of the year. The starting point of the climb was in Kotobaru, Tanah Datar with the long trip from Padang to Kotobaru about 1.5 hours.