Big eruption of sinabung
The big eruption of Sinabung volcano in Tanah Karo, North Sumatra, on Monday (19/2) morning caused the area to be completely dark.
Information from the Mount Sinabung Monitoring Post, volcanic ash volume is down in Karo District so that the sun light is blocked and visibility shortens.
"The condition around the location is dark because it is covered with volcanic ash and the Karo Red Cross Indonesia still records whether there are any casualties," said PIB Sinabung, Armen Putra.
Armen also appealed to the public not to perform activities on a radius of seven kilometers from the summit.
PVMBG parties continue to monitor the activities of Mount Sinabung located in Karo District, North Sumatra was from CCTV and Thermal Cam owned PVMBG - Geological Agency.
Meanwhile, Head of Emergency and Logistics Agency BPBD Tanah Karo, Natanail Perangin-angin said two sub-districts affected by the most severe eruption, among others, District Payung and District Tiganderket, with conditions "darkness".
"Visibility is only five to 10 meters," said Nathailail.
Natanail said it was still conducting sweeps in the red zones to ascertain if there were any casualties in this eruption.
"Our volunteers have already combed, asked the village head, and until now there has been no reports of casualties," he explained.
Sinabung volcano erupted violently on Monday (19/2) at 08.53 WIB and with volcanic ash column reaches a height of 5 kilometers and hot clouds glide 4.9 km to the south-southeast and 3.5 km to the southeast and east.
all there are no victims there