Mount Merapi Also Threat Keeps Giving Benefits

Mount Merapi is still keeping the threat of a major disaster, as the eruption in 2010 ago. The potential of a similar disaster could happen again, but expected to remain in the long term.
"The eruption like that do not happen every three or four years because it took a long time to accumulate the energy magma," said Advisor to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Surono told reporters interrupted the event Labuhan Merapi, on Monday (9/5).


Nevertheless, he is familiarly called Mbah Rono is asking people to not be afraid of the danger of Merapi. Conversely, the presence of active volcanoes that must be thanked for giving a blessing for people who live in the vicinity.

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Mount Merapi Designed for Humans

SYSTEM volcanic Mount Merapi is designed to the highest level of security for mankind. Designer, deliberately put the double valve in the system of incandescent material release vulkanisnyaagar not harm people and destroy lives in its habitat.

Double valve in the form of two pockets of magma that is connected by a pipe of magma. Usually one of volcanic magma was given only one bag (magma chamber), but for Mount Merapi is favored because many people privileging of Mount Merapi. In addition to magma chamber, magma pockets plus one size smaller.


Magma bag serves as a valve, controlling the release of magma within the earth to the crater of Merapi. Merapi volcanic system has a similarity with the system on motor vehicle exhaust, muffler.

Factory standard exhaust must have different diameters. There are mblendug (bulge) is small. Design of exhaust gas exhaust blast intended to obtain a smooth, his voice was so soft.

Just as Mount Merapi volcanic system, giving a double pocket on the magma pipe for discharge of magma into the earth's surface is more controlled. Because of that Mount Merapi eruption was recorded but the most diligent of type Vulkanian lontarnya categorized weak, not destroy. Unlike the Plinian type is the type Vulkanian very strong.

You can imagine if not given a bag of Merapi magma. 80 cc motorcycle muffler blombongan only if capable of destroying the peace of the city. Moreover Merapi therein save the millions of cubic matrial bulb. Without there are 2 pockets of magma that is able to distribute, energy, pressure and volume of fluid magma, millions of cubic meters of magma could induce vomiting at once and fled away, life on it, broken .. destroyed

In fact Merapi volcano Plinian not destined to become, once a powerful burst length then istirahan so on. Providence Mount Merapi as a generous, soft, familiar and close friends with humans. Double-bag owned Merapi magma is not by chance element, but because his fate, as destiny location and number of the human eye.

Then care less what God in His people? what is less perfect in His creation? we are never grateful, never appreciated, never want to think about his creation.

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Merapi Volcano Releases Biggest Eruption

Mount Merapi erupted with renewed force Wednesday, prompting evacuations of residents from emergency shelters to locations even further from the volcano.

Indonesian government volcanologist Surano said Wednesday's eruption was three times more powerful than Merapi's first blast on October 26.

The volcano sent hot ash and rocks five kilometers into the sky, forcing authorities to widen the evacuation zone around the mountain from 10 kilometers to 15 kilometers.

The new eruption happened as Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited emergency shelters housing 70,000 evacuees from earlier eruptions. Surano said shelters within the expanded danger zone will be moved further away.

It may be weeks before the evacuees can return to their homes.

Mount Merapi's eruptions have killed at least 38 people, most from burns and suffocation. There was no immediate word of any casualties from Wednesday's blast. [ Read More..]

Eruption of Mount Merapi The death toll has reached 156

The death toll from recent eruptions at Indonesia's Mount Merapi continues to rise as the volcano spewed hot ash clouds and gas on Sunday.

At least 156 people have died since Merapi started erupting on October 26, said Sigit, a doctor at Sardjito Hospital in Yogyakarta. Many Indonesians go by one name.

Ash columns reached as high as 6 kilometers (3.7 miles), according to the Indonesian Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Agency.

Merapi's rumblings could be heard as far as 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) away, and the agency expanded the danger zone to 20 kilometers after Friday's deadly eruptions.

Data from the Indonesian Volcanology Technology Development and Assessment Agency indicated that a hot ash cloud that had hit a village near the crater was around 450-600 degrees Celsius (842-1,112 degrees Fahrenheit).

The volcano's wrath has reached villages in areas many thought were safe from Merapi's eruptions. Some of the victims who died lived 10 to 20 kilometers away from the volcano, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Relief agencies such as Plan Indonesia estimate about 200,000 people have been displaced.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was in Yogyakarta on Sunday with several of his ministers to oversee relief efforts.

The president has announced that residents will receive compensation for livelihoods and animals lost to the eruptions. Yudhoyono said the government will buy endangered cows on the volcano. Many of those who live on its slopes raise cattle and risked their lives by staying or returning to feed their cows.

The 3,000-meter (9,800-foot) Merapi, in Central Java, is famously unpredictable. An eruption killed two people in 2006 and another killed more than 60 villagers in 1994. About 1,300 people died when Merapi erupted in 1930.

In addition, last week a 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia's coast, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 449 people. Hundreds more were injured.
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More evacuated as Merapi volcano erupts again

Wukirsari Indonesia ordered thousands more people to evacuate Thursday as the country's most active volcano erupted again, shooting gas and ash into the sky and triggering a new aircraft exclusion zone.

Volcanologists said the "high intensity" eruption was the strongest yet from the 2,914-metre (9,616-foot) Mount Merapi, as officials revised the total death toll up to 44 from 36 who were killed on October 26.
"Today's eruption is bigger than yesterday's. Heat clouds and volcanic material were shot 10 kilometres (six miles) into the sky," said Kurniadi Rinekso, a government scientist in Yogyakarta, which lies south of the volcano.

An avalanche of heat clouds that can kill anything in their path streamed nine kilometres down the slopes of the volcano, a sacred landmark in Javanese tradition whose name translates as "Mountain of Fire".
Evacuees staying at an emergency shelter in Wukirsari village in Sleman district, about 20 kilometres from the volcano's peak, said it spat heat clouds and debris for about three hours after dawn.
Scientists however said it had erupted throughout the night but the scale of the blasts -- which reached almost as high as the altitude of cruising jetliners -- had only become visible after sunrise.
Officials said the number of people at safety shelters rose past 100,000 from 75,000 on Wednesday, when the official exclusion zone was widened from 10 to 15 kilometres around the volcano, taking in many more villages.
"The emergency shelters are now overcrowded," emergency response field coordinator Widi Sutikno said.
"We've started to move facilities and equipment from the previous shelters to the new locations," he added.
One mother in a shelter said her six-year-old daughter was traumatised by the eruptions.
"Every time she sees the mountain she cries and freaks out," the woman said.
An official said that including the October 26 eruption, 41 people had been killed "as a direct result of the eruptions" and three in related incidents, including a baby accidentally suffocated by her mother as she tried to flee.
The Indonesian archipelago has dozens of active volcanoes and straddles major tectonic fault lines from the Indian to the Pacific oceans.
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Merapi Volcano Eruption: Will it Stop President Obama Visit?

Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano – the most active of all the country’s volcanoes – continued to throw out clouds of ash and toxic fumes on Sunday, leaving many to wonder whether or not it will put a stop to President Barack Obama’s scheduled visit to Indonesia.

However, according to a recent report at reuters.com, White House officials said there were currently no plans to re-schedule the visit, although they are keeping a close eye on developments. Obama’s Indonesian visit has already been postponed twice before.
Mount Merapi – which is located on the outskirts of Yogyakarta City in central Java – first erupted about 2 weeks ago. Since then it has killed more than 120 people, set village homes ablaze and even forced the cancellation of flights to the surrounding area.
Ben Rhodes – the White House deputy national security advisor – spoke from Mumbai in India, and said: “We are following the developments very carefully.” Obama is currently on a 10-day tour of Asia, with Mumbai being one of the very first places he’s visiting.
Obama has twice postponed visits to Indonesia -- where he lived for several years as a child with his mother -- the first time in March as he struggled to push through a health reform bill in the U.S. and the second in June following the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Do you think it will stop President Obama from visiting the country?
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