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Activity at the volcano has increased and VSI raised the alert level to “siaga”, 3 on a scale of 1-4. The mild strombolian activity which had been going on for months at the volcano has become more and more intense since the beginning of September. Some explosions in the past days have been strong enough to eject incandescent material to all over the summit cone of the volcano.
In its latest report on 11 Sept, VSI mentions that 165 eruptions occurred on that day with ejection heights between 50-1500 m.
BNPB, Indonesian’s Civil Protection began preparing for a possible evacuation. According to them, 23,699 people are located within a radius of 5 to 6 km from the summit, and the area up to 4 km radius around the volcano has been declared an exclusion zone.
56,000 dust masks have been distributed to the local population.
Trucks and vans are prepared to be on standby when evacuation order is given in order to transport people away from the danger zone.
Shelters are being set up.
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