Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Red Alert for Volcano Kelut in JAVA

Summary
On 10/17/2007 2:01:41 PM UTC a change occurred in the eruption status of Volcano Kelut in the very highly populated region of Indonesia in JAVA.
The GDACS alert indicates: Less than 100000 people within 100km or Volcano is dormant, normal seismic & fumarolic activity, or restless (alert level 0 or 1). More than 100000 people within 100km and volcano is in eruption or eruption may occur at any time (Alert levels 2, 3 and 4) More than 100000 people within 100km and significant eruption is occurring or explosive eruption is expected at any time (alert level 5).
Alert levels are taken from the South West Volcano Research Centre.
Location
Description
The Volcano is in JAVA, 85km from the city of Surabaja. The nearest populated places are Kandangan (20km), Wonoredjo (15km), Djombok (13km), Pudjon (19km), Djengkol (19km), Wates (20km), Tulungredjo (7km), Bambingan (5km).
It is a mountainous region with a maximum altitude of 3631 m.
Getting there and away
The nearest civilian airport (Abdulrachman Saleh) is at 44km from the epicenter. See the map for more details.
The estimated geographical coordinates of the Volcano are: 7.93 South and 112.31 East.
Potentially affected People
The population in the area of this volcano is 1102 people/km².
The volcano event occurred at 21h local time. At this time a day, more people are at home and therefore more vulnerable to collapsing residential buildings. During traffic hours, people can be affected by collapsing bridges and other road infrastructure.
http://www.gdacs.org/reports.asp?eventType=VO&system=asgard&ID=498&alertlevel=Red&location=ID&glide_no=
As in the days of Noah....

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