– About 7 500 people living near the volcano after its recent eruptions have left their homes on motorcycles, cars, military trucks – Tri Budiarto said in an interview with the French agency AFP. – Earlier, at the beginning of the month, evacuated nearly 2 500 people, for a total of more than 10 700 people – he added.
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The first evacuation of concerned residents of four villages in distance of 13 km from the volcano. Its volcanic eruption threw ash to a height of more than two kilometers away.
The volcanic activity continued on Tuesday. The volcano threw four in the morning burning ash, gas and stones that fell three kilometers away, and dwumilimetrowa layer of ash covered all the roads and houses within a radius of 15 km. According to specialists in the area is still dangerous.
Sinabung – the highest peak in North Sumatra province (nearly 2.5 thous. M) – activated in August 2010, after more than 400 years of sleep. Since September 2013, the volcano were evacuated neighborhoods approx. 30 thousand. humans. In February last year as a result of a volcanic eruption killed 16 people. They were mainly high school students, who came to admire the volcano.
On the slopes of the volcano Sinabung centuries are grown cocoa, coffee and oranges. In Indonesia is 129 active volcanoes. The most active volcano Mount Merapi is (2900 m) in Java. Since 2010 in a series of eruptions killed more than 350 people.
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