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Eruption Is Largest Yet for Rumbling Sumatran Volcano

(Sept. 7) -- A volcano in Indonesia shot black ash three miles high today, its biggest eruption since waking up last week after being dormant for some 400 years. Lava, rock and ash streamed into the night sky from Mount Sinabung on the island of Sumatra just after midnight, Agence France-Presse reported. The eruption,...

Flights Disrupted After Indonesian Volcano Erupts

(Aug. 30) --Two people have been killed and local air traffic halted after a long-dormant volcano erupted on Indonesia's Sumatra island. International flights could be affected by choking smoke rising more than three miles. Mount Sinabung, which had been silent since the 1600s, first erupted Sunday. Today, it raged again...

Thousands Flee Erupting Volcano in Indonesia

(Aug. 29) -- A volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has erupted for the first time in 400 years, firing a plume of smoke and ash nearly a mile into the sky and sending more than 10,000 locals fleeing from their homes. "We felt strong tremors last night. It was a volcanic quake," Red Cross worker Muhammad Isral told...

Background on mount sinabung

Mount Sinabung (Indonesian: Gunung Sinabung) is a Pleistocene-to-Holocene stratovolcano of andesite and dacite in the Karo plateau of Karo Regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia, 25 miles from Lake Toba supervolcano.

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