Erupsi Lagi, Gunung Sinabung Muntahkan Kolom Abu setinggi 2 Ribu meter
Indonesia`s Mt. Sinabung Shoots Column of Smoke and Ash into Sky
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
GUNUNG Sinabung kembali meletus pada Selasa, mengeluarkan awan panas besar dan asap setinggi 2.000 meter ke udara, mengakibatkan debu erupsi menutupi atap rumah warga.
Gunung Sinabung di Kabupaten Karo, Provinsi Sumatra Utara - yang telah bergemuruh sejak 2010 dan letusan dahsyat pada 2016 - memuntahkan erupsi tebal yang terus meningkat dalam beberapa hari terakhir.
Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana [BNPB] mengatakan letusan itu memiliki "potensi" untuk mempengaruhi penerbangan, tetapi belum mengeluarkan larangan resmi untuk pesawat terbang menghindari kawasan tersebut.
Penduduk lokal yang tinggal di sepanjang sungai dekat kawah disarankan untuk waspada terhadap kemungkinan aliran lahar.
Tidak ada laporan cedera atau kematian setelah letusan terbaru dan BNPB tidak mengeluarkan perintah evakuasi.
Tidak ada yang tinggal di dalam zona larangan terbang yang diumumkan sebelumnya di sekitar gunung berapi.
Sinabung meraung kembali pada 2010 untuk pertama kalinya setelah 'tidur' selama 400 tahun. Setelah periode tidak aktif itu meletus sekali lagi pada 2013, dan tetap sangat aktif sejak itu seperti dikutip AFP yang dilansir MailOnline.
AN INDONESIAN volcano erupted Tuesday, sending a massive column of ash and smoke 2,000 metres (6,500 feet) into the air, coating local villages in debris.
Mount Sinabung on Sumatra island -- which has been rumbling since 2010 and saw a deadly eruption in 2016 -- spewed the thick plume after activity picked up recent days.
Disaster agency officials said the eruption has the "potential" to affect flights, but it had not issued a formal notice for planes to avoid the area.
Local residents living along rivers near the crater were advised to be on alert for possible lava flows.
There were no reports of injuries or deaths after the latest eruption and the disaster agency did not issue an evacuation order.
No one lives inside a previously announced no-go zone around the volcano.
Sinabung roared back to life in 2010 for the first time in 400 years. After another period of inactivity it erupted once more in 2013, and has remained highly active since.
In 2016, seven people died in one of Sinabung's eruptions, while a 2014 eruption killed 16.
Last year, a volcano in the strait between Java and Sumatra islands erupted, causing an underwater landslide that unleashed a tsunami which killed over 400 people.
Indonesia is home to around 130 active volcanoes due to its position on the "Ring of Fire", a belt of tectonic plate boundaries circling the Pacific Ocean where frequent seismic activity occurs.
