Indonesia has more than 120 active volcanoes due to the country's location along prominent tectonic fault lines. The Sinabung volcano remained inactive for about 400 years before awakening in 2010. Since then, Sinabung has erupted several times, leaving more than a dozen people dead. The active volcano Sinabung, located in the Indonesian province of North Sumatra, threw a thick column of ash high into the sky on Wednesday.
"The eruption of Mount Sinabung occurred at 13:20 local time, the height of the ash column reached 4.5 kilometres", Armen Putra, a member of a local monitoring post under the Indonesian Centre for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation, told CNN Indonesia.
Poster Comment:
Grand Solar Minimum. Lots of quakes and volcanoes.