Bali's Mount Agung erupts after months of monitoring

2017-11-21 08:18:22

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency ) Bali's rumbling Mount Agung volcano has erupted, after months of intensive monitoring and extensive local evacuations, reports.

The eruption, observed on Tuesday afternoon, was confirmed by the Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center (PVMBG).

'Already, it's already erupted,' PVMBG head, I Gede Suantika, said on Tuesday.

'There is already ash fall,' Suantika added.

The extent of the eruption has not yet been publicly detailed by PVMBG, but the center is urging that the public remain calm and do not panic and the volcano's status remains only on the second highest level of four levels.

'Mount Agung erupted black smoke at 5:35pm. The status is still standby, or level III, and people are encouraged to stay calm,' National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said separately.

Nugroho later put out an update, tweeting that the volcano actually started letting smoke out at 17:05.

The black smoke shot up 700 meters from the volcano's crater with ash blowing 'gently' in an easterly and southeasterly direction, according to Sutopo.

'Do not panic and stay away from the radius of six to seven and a half kilometers, as recommended by PVMBG,' Sutopo said.

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