TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Mount Anak Krakatau continues to show its volcanic activities. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, Head of the Information Data Center and Public Relations of the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) said that on Sunday the volcano located in the Sunda Strait, Lampung Province, had been erupted almost every day.

Mount Anak Krakatau’s Observation Post, Volcanology Center and Geological Disaster Mitigation (PVMBG) reported that there were 576 eruptions during the day on Saturday, August 18. The eruption height varies, 100 meters to 500 meters from the top of the crater.

For 24 hours from 12:00 am to 12:00 pm on Saturday, the volcano erupted 576 times with an amplitude of 23-44 mm, and the duration of the eruption was 19-255 seconds. It was accompanied by a burst of volcanic ash, sand, flares of incandescent stones, and the sound of a bang. Visually, there were fires and incandescent lava. The blowing lasted 80 times, with an amplitude of 5-30 mm and 10-80 seconds duration.

On Saturday at 6:09 pm, an eruption occurred with an ash column, about 500 m above the peak (about 805 m above sea level). The black ash column with thick intensity was inclined towards the north. The eruption was recorded on a seismogram with a maximum amplitude of 42 mm and a duration of 2 minutes 33 seconds.

This is the second largest eruption since 18 June 2018. The most eruption had 745 eruptions on 30 June 2018. The eruption that occurred this time was small but successive, had no effect on the flight route and shipping lanes in the Sunda Strait.

The status of Mount Anak Krakatau remains alert (level II) with a radius of a dangerous zone within 2 kilometers. This status is set from January 26 until now. Alert Status means that volcanic activity is above normal so that eruption can occur at any time. It is not dangerous as long as the community does not carry out its activities within a 2-kilometer radius.

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