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Sinabung volcano eruption did not do any harm to Russians

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Sinabung volcano eruption did not do any harm to Russians


30.12.2017

pixabay.comRussian tourists staying in Indonesia did not suffer from Sinabung volcano eruption, RIA Novosti reports. The volcano located on the island of Sumatra erupted ashes and vapor. The height of the eruption amounted to five km. Scientists did not register magma on the surface.

As the Russian Embassy has explained, there are neither casualties nor destructions. Authorities did not close airport in the city of Medan.

The height of Sinabung reaches almost two and a half meters above the sea level. The volcano slept for around four hundred years. Its first eruption occurred 7 years ago. In two years, regular eruptions of ashes started and the first serious eruption happened in 2014. Next year authorities had to evacuate people living nearby from the functioning volcano. Around six hundred people were evacuated in total.

Indonesia represents the main part of so-called Pacific Ring of Fire – the powerful tectonic fracture. The tectonic slab forming the bottom of the Indian Ocean moves under the Asian slab, which is a part of Sumatra. The accumulated energy is freed in a form of earthquakes and strong eruptions.

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