Indonesia volcano eruption panics villagers
(AFP) –
11 hours ago
The first eruption at Mount Lokon was at 3:07 am (1907 GMT Monday), followed by two more bursts within minutes, Farid Bina told AFP from a monitoring post near the volcano on Sulawesi island.
"The eruption was heard as far as five kilometres (three miles) away, causing panic among villagers living close to the volcano," he said, adding that winds blew volcanic ash to villages up to five kilometres to the east and northeast.
"Two villages with about 10,000 people each have been affected by the ash, which stopped later in the morning," he added.
More than 5,200 people were evacuated to temporary shelters when the 1,580-metre volcano erupted in July, sending huge clouds of ash as high as 3,500 metres (11,500 feet) into the sky.
Lokon's last deadly eruption was in 1991, killing a Swiss tourist.
The Indonesian archipelago has dozens of active volcanoes and straddles major tectonic fault lines known as the "Ring of Fire" between the Pacific and Indian oceans.
The country's most active volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, killed more than 350 people in a series of violent eruptions last year.
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印尼洛康火山爆發 村民驚
法新社 –
8小時前
（法新社雅加達27日電） 政府火山學家表示，印尼
活動最頻繁的火山今天爆發，噴出火山灰，也讓村民驚
慌失措，但到目前為止，尚未發出撤離令。
賓納（Farid Bina）在蘇拉威西島（Sulawesi）洛
康火山（Lokon）附近的監測站告訴法新社，這座火山
在凌晨3時07分第1次爆發，幾分鐘內又陸續噴發2次。
他說：「5公里之外的地方都聽得到火山爆發，火
山附近居民更是嚇的驚慌失措。」
他進一步指出，強風將火山灰吹往東方及東北方5
公里外村落。
他說：「分別約有1萬居民的2村落都受到火山灰影
響。還好今早稍後未再降下火山灰。」
這座高達1580公尺的火山今年7月爆發時，火山灰
直衝3500公尺高空，當局還撤離逾5200人到臨時避難所。
洛康火山前次爆發且造成人員死亡在1991年，當年
有1名瑞士旅客喪命。（譯者：中央社陳蓉）
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