JAKARTA: Mount Sinabung located on the Indonesian island of Sumatra erupted once again on Tuesday, sending out ash clouds as high as 5,000 metres into the sky. However, There were no reports of casualties or damages, reports Xinhua news agency.
Sinabung is one of the 129 active volcanoes in Indonesia, a vast-archipelagic nation home to over 17,500 islands.
The country's Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center (PVMBG) has urged locals and visitors to stay away from the red zone, and residents living alongside rivers were also cautioned of potential lava.
According to the report, the current alert status of the volcano with an altitude of 2,460 meters above the sea surface is at level 3 of the country's four-tiered alert system. Mount Sinabung, situated in Karo district, has been rumbling since 2010. In 2016, it erupted killing nine locals.
Sixteen people were killed and thousands of others were forced to flee home when it erupted in 2014
Indonesia is home to about 130 volcanoes because of its position on the Ring of Fire, a belt of tectonic plate boundaries circling the Pacific Ocean where frequent seismic activity occurs.
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