Residents and tourists were instructed to stay away from a 6 km rejection area.
Following the initial explosion on Tuesday evening, four more explosions followed on Wednesday, causing more than 800 people to travel safely from Ruang to Tagulandang island.
TSUNAMI WARNING
Authorities also issued a storm warning as a result of the volcanoes.
” The communities in Tagulandang island, particularly those residing near the beach, ( need ) to be on alert for the potential ejection of incandescent rocks, hot clouds discharges and tsunami caused by the collapse of the volcano’s body into the sea,” Hendra Gunawan, head of Indonesia’s volcanology agency, said in a statement Wednesday.
The government ‘ fears were compounded by previous knowledge.
A big eruption caused a storm that left more than 400 people dead and hundreds of injured when the volcano of Mount Anak Krakatoa, located between Java and the Sumatra islands, partially collapsed in 2018.
Due to its location on the Pacific” Ring of Fire,” an episode where tectonic plates meet that extends from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific lake, Indonesia, a vast archipelago state, experiences frequent geological and volcanic action.
Sam Ratulangi International Airport in Manado area, which is located more than 100 kilometers away from the crater, was closed for 24 hours until Thursday night due to the eruption’s effects.
According to Ambar Suryoko, mind of the Manado area aircraft authority office,” the spread of geological ash could harm flight safety” was the reason the runways were closed.
Flights that fly to Singapore and places in South Korea and China are located at the airports.
” All planes… impacted because the aircraft is affected by the eruption of Mount Ruang, geological dust,” Dimas, 29-year-old aircraft commander in Manado told Agency by telephone.