China News Service, March 3 According to foreign media reports, on the morning of March 2, local time, the Sinabung volcano in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia erupted continuously and volcanic ash as high as 5,000 meters.
According to sources, no casualties have been caused so far.
According to reports, the Sinabung volcano has become more frequent after August 2020. In the past week, 13 eruptions of volcanic ash have been recorded.
From 7 am to 8 am local time on March 2nd, three large-scale eruptions occurred on Mount Sinabung, which affected the lives of residents and agricultural production activities in many surrounding villages.
On March 2, local time, the Sinabung volcano in Indonesia erupted, and huge smoke rose up like a "mushroom cloud."
The Indonesian Volcano and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center reported that there is no news of casualties.
A resident in a nearby village told Reuters that after the massive eruption of the volcano, the situation has returned to calm and "volcanic ash is decreasing."
At present, the alert level of the volcano is the third level, the second highest level, and the range of 3 to 5 kilometers around the crater is an evacuation zone.
Mount Sinabung is located in Karo County, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. It erupted for the first time in 2010 after nearly 400 years of silence.
The eruption in February 2014 killed 16 people and displaced thousands of people.
Since May 2019, the volcano has been at a three-level alert level.
On August 10, 2020, Sinabung volcano experienced a violent eruption without causing casualties.