9-6-2023 (JAKARTA) Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano erupted twice in just over an hour on Friday, spewing volcanic ash as high as 3,000 metres into the air, according to the country’s volcanology agency. The volcano erupted at 7.46am local time on Friday, then again 62 minutes later. The 157 metre high Anak Krakatau, located in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra islands, has erupted more than 10 times since March this year.
Authorities have issued the second-highest alert level and tourists and residents have been advised not to approach or climb the volcano. The nearest settlement is 16.5km away. Indonesia sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire” and has 127 active volcanoes, according to the volcanology agency.
In December 2018, an eruption of Anak Krakatau triggered an underwater landslide that set off a tsunami in Banten, West Java province and Lampung province that killed at least 430 people. As of Friday, four Indonesian volcanoes were at the second-highest alert level, including Anak Krakatau, Merapi in Central Java, Semeru in East Java, and Karangetang in North Sulawesi.
Anak Krakatau, which means “the child of Krakatau,” emerged from Krakatau volcano, which famously erupted in 1883 and killed more than 36,000 people in a series of tsunamis.
