Sinabung `Tidur`400 Tahun, Mendadak Meletus pada 2010
Mount Sinabung was Dormant over 400 Years Before Erupting in 2010
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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WARGA sebuah desa di lereng gunung di Indonesia bagian barat terpaksa berlarian ke luar rumah mereka ketika gunung berapi di dekatnya meletus pada Sabtu malam.
Wanita dan anak-anak berlari serabutan naik ke mobil van untuk menjauhi Gunung Sinabung yang memuntahkan gas beracun dan lava setelah tengah malam di Sumatera Utara.
Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB) mengatakan lebih dari 50 kali letusan terjadi, yang memuntahkan batu dan puing-puing hingga tiga mil jauhnya dari gunung, namun dilaporkan tidak ada korban jiwa seperti dilansir Mail Online.
Gunung berapi ini masih memuntahkan gas dan lava setinggi 10 meter pagi ini.
Juru bicara BNPB yang dikonfirmasi mengatakan zona bahaya telah dipetakan sejauh tiga mil dari mulut kawah, tapi terus diperluas untuk mengantisipasi dampaknya.
Tentara turut membantu upaya evakuasi
di dua desa, Jewara dan Pintu Besi, di mana rumah-rumah dan peternakan ditutupi abu vulkanik.
Lebih dari 20 ribu warga telah dievakuasi dari desa-desa sekitar gunung berapi dan ditempatkan di tempat penampungan sementara setelah status siaga Sinabung pada bulan November.
Seorang warga mengaku: "Kami telah kehilangan segalanya.
"Kami bertanya-tanya tentang kehidupan kami setelah bencana ini," kata ayah dari empat anak di tempat penampungan sempit di desa Telegah.
Gunung setinggi 2.460 meter meletus secara sporadis sejak September 2013. Sinabung kembali aktif setelah lebih dari 400 tahun ´tertidur´ dan menggeliat pada 2010 ketika letusannya menewaskan dua orang.
Juru bicara Kementerian Perhubungan Bambang Ervan mengatakan penerbangan telah diberitahu untuk menghindari rute dekat gunung.
Gunung Sinabung adalah salah satu dari sekitar 130 gunung berapi aktif di Indonesia, yang rentan terhadap gejolak seismik karena lokasinya berada pada kawasan ´Ring of Fire´ Pasifik.
Cluster gunung berapi di cekungan Samudra Pasifik adalah di mana 90% dari gempa bumi di dunia terjadi.
PANICKED residents of a mountainside village in western Indonesia were forced to scramble from their homes when a nearby volcano erupted late on Saturday night.
Women and children were packed into vans and driven away from Mount Sinabung as it spurted gas and lava just after midnight in Northern Sumatra province.
Natural disaster authorities said more than 50 eruptions occurred, with rocks and debris landing three miles away from the mountain, though no casualties have been reported.
The volcano was still spitting gas and lava as high as 13,00 feet this morning.
A spokesman for the country´s disaster mitigation agency confirmed a danger zone had been mapped out at three miles from the crater´s mouth, but was extended an extra mile.
Soldiers joined rescue efforts in two village, Jewara and Pintu Besi, where houses and farms were covered in grey dust.
More than 20,000 people have been evacuated from villages surrounding the volcano and placed in temporary shelters since the crater´s alert status was heightened in November.
One man said: ´We´ve lost everything.
´We wonder about our lives after this disaster,´ said the father-of-four who is among those in a cramped shelter in Telegah village.
The 8,530ft mountain has erupted sporadically since September. It had been dormant for over 400 years in 2010 when a sudden eruption killed two people.
Transportation Ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan said airlines had been notified to avoid routes near the mountain.
Mount Sinabung is among about 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia, which is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on what is known as the Pacific ´Ring of Fire´.
The cluster of volcanoes in the basin of the Pacific Ocean is where 90 per cent of the world´s earthquakes and occur.
PANICKED residents of a mountainside village in western Indonesia were forced to scramble from their homes when a nearby volcano erupted late on Saturday night.
Women and children were packed into vans and driven away from Mount Sinabung as it spurted gas and lava just after midnight in Northern Sumatra province.
Natural disaster authorities said more than 50 eruptions occurred, with rocks and debris landing three miles away from the mountain, though no casualties have been reported.
The volcano was still spitting gas and lava as high as 13,00 feet this morning.
A spokesman for the country´s disaster mitigation agency confirmed a danger zone had been mapped out at three miles from the crater´s mouth, but was extended an extra mile.
Soldiers joined rescue efforts in two village, Jewara and Pintu Besi, where houses and farms were covered in grey dust.
More than 20,000 people have been evacuated from villages surrounding the volcano and placed in temporary shelters since the crater´s alert status was heightened in November.
One man said: ´We´ve lost everything.
´We wonder about our lives after this disaster,´ said the father-of-four who is among those in a cramped shelter in Telegah village.
The 8,530ft mountain has erupted sporadically since September. It had been dormant for over 400 years in 2010 when a sudden eruption killed two people.
Transportation Ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan said airlines had been notified to avoid routes near the mountain.
Mount Sinabung is among about 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia, which is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on what is known as the Pacific ´Ring of Fire´.
The cluster of volcanoes in the basin of the Pacific Ocean is where 90 per cent of the world´s earthquakes and occur.
