Volcano erupting at Mount Krakatoa

Mount Soputan volcano erupts in Indonesia

Volcano erupting at Mount Krakatoa
Volcano erupting at Mount Spoutan

Mount Soputan in North Sulawesi island, Indonesia, started spewing ash and lava 19, 685 feet (6000meteres), five days after Sulawesi was devastated with tsunami and 7.5-magnitude earthquake which killed 1407 people. The officials declared an exclusion zone with 1km of the summit.

Indonesia’s Volcanology centre released seismographic data showing 479 mild tremors in Anak Krakatoa’s 300-meter-high summit on Thursday.

In 1883, the eruption caused a 30-meter-high tsunami that killed more than 36 million people and lowered global temperature by around 1.2ᵒc for five years. It is one of the 127 active volcanoes a third of the world’s total that dot the Indonesian archipelago and part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.