Jakarta: one of the world's most active volcanoes, Mount Merapi of Indonesia has spewed a plume of grey ash into the sky as fiery red molten lava streamed down from its crater.
The authorities did not increase, the rumbling volcano's alert status after the eruption on Thursday evening. But any activity at Merapi raises concern and local residents have previously been ordered to stay outside a five-kilometre no-go zone around the crater near Yogyakarta.
Recently, Across the Southeast Asian archipelago, Mount Karangetang on Sulawesi island also erupted with more than a hundred nearby residents ordered to evacuate from the remote site.
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eariler in 2010 a mojor eruption took place which had killed more than 300 people and forced some 280,000 others to evacuate. It was Merapi's most powerful eruption since 1930, which killed some 1,300 people, while another explosion in 1994 took about 60 lives.
Indonesia has more than 17,000 islands and islets -- and nearly 130 active volcanoes.