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1 day agoIndonesia's Semeru volcano erupts, alert level raised to highest
Mount Semeru erupted, sending ash plumes up to 5.6 km and pyroclastic flows up to 7 km, prompting highest alert and a 2.5 km evacuation.
For a while, Sam Vea had been smelling sulphur on the air only mildly infernal, like a distant sniff of hell, but sulphur nonetheless. Still, on the Saturday evening when the explosion happened, he sat up in fright. It sounded so near he thought some cataclysm had occurred right there, in his neighbourhood. The windows trembled. The curtains fell off. Vea peeked out of his house but saw nothing destroyed or on fire.