Increased, Volcanic Activities on Indonesia Mount of Krakatoa and Tangkuban Perahu

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Jakarta, detikcom – Black smoke has came out of Mount of Child of Krakatoa (Anak Krakatau) in Sunda straits, west of Java, as the mountain has experiencing more than 32 volcanic quakes in the last two day. Meanwhile, near Bandung, capital of West Java, mount of Tangkuban Perahu also experiencing more than 100 volcanic quakes in the last seven days. The status has been raised to ‘alert’ and trader and tourist ordered to leave the volcano craters area.

''Volcano activities in Child of Krakatoa has no relation with Sumatra earthquake. But we have to raise the level from I (normal) to level II (alert),'' said Head of Geophysics and Volcanics Disaster Mitigation Agency Surono. His agency has sent message to Banten province authorities to stop tourist and local people from coming to the Krakatoa area. ''We are worry about poisoned gas released by the activities.''

In Tangkuban Perahu, dozen of local police has been dispatched to asked tourist and traders to leave the craters. More than 50 local traders who used to be selling souvenir and more than 100 hundreds local tourist had been leaving the craters area. In the previous volcano activities, two craters of Tangkuban Perahu, Ratu and Domas, released its poisoned gas.

‘’Quake at Tangkuban Perahu recorded at 2 in Richter scale,’’ said Surono. ‘’We have to watch for poisoned gas on the mountain. It used to be released in rainy condition,’’ he added. © umi/jon