Residents of an Indonesian village in East Java province were left to grapple with devastating damage and loss on Thursday (Nov 20) after the eruption of Semeru volcano blanketed their town with pyroclastic mud and ash.
00:00Residents of an Indonesian village in East Java province were left to grapple with devastating damage and loss on Thursday after the eruption of Sameru Volcano blanketed their town with pyroclastic mud and ash.
00:15Video released by BPBD Malang showed disaster agency officers walking past damaged houses on mud-caked roads at the village of Kamar A, one of the towns sitting in the volcano's red zones.
00:28Following Sameru's eruption on Wednesday, one of the country's tallest mountains, the alert level was maintained at its highest after the volcano emitted massive plumes of ash and sending lava and rocks as far as 13 kilometers down its slopes.
00:44The 3,676 meter high Mount Sameru is one of about 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia, which straddles the Pacific Ring of Fire, a highly seismically active zone where different plates on the Earth's crust meet and create a large number of earthquakes and volcanoes.
01:14The 5,677 meter high Mount Sameru is the 4,677 meter high Mount Sameru is the 4,673 meter high Mount Sameru.
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