TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Mount Agung, on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, has again sent volcanic ash up to 1,500 meters into the sky.
"This is a phreatic eruption carrying ash material, but we are yet to analyze it," Kasbani, chief of the Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center (PVMBG) at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, said on Saturday.
The PVMBG recorded the phreatic eruption at around 05.30 p.m. local time, with the volcano spewing grey and black thick volcanic material.
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He stated that the center could visually observe the bursts of the ash, which moved with medium pressure towards southwest, through three seismic stations in three villages.
Kasbani asked the people living near the mount to remain calm and not to panic following the second phreatic eruption.
He also asked the public not to carry out any activity in the predicted dangerous zone within a radius of six kilometers from the crater and the expanded zone of 7.5 kilometers in the north and northeast and the southeast, south, and southwest.
The PVMBG earlier reported the 3,142-meter-high volcano erupted on Tuesday afternoon (Nov 21), releasing volcanic ash and smoke from the crater, with grey smoke rising some 700 meters from the crater.
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PVMBG Head of Volcano Supervision and Mitigation Devy Kamil Syahbana noted in Denpasar on Tuesday that the smoke was moving towards the eastern and southeastern regions of the volcano.
"(Despite the eruption), the volcano remained in stage III of the alert status. Hence, we hope that people would remain calm and follow PVMBG's instructions," she remarked.
According to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, Mount Agung's eruption on Tuesday was a phreatic eruption, which is steam-driven without lava being ejected.
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