Overall Green alert Volcanic eruption for Semeru
in Indonesia

Event summary

GREEN alert: The Semeru Volcanic eruption is unlikely to require external humanitarian assistance based on the exposed population and coping capacity.

GDACS ID VO 263300
Name: Semeru
Lat/Lon: -8.108 , 112.922
Event Date: 05 Mar 2020 UTC
Exposed Population 30km: About 870000 people within 30km
Exposed Population 100km: About 19740000 people within 100km
Max Volc. Explosivity Index VEI: 3
Population Exposure Index PEI: 5
Inserted at: 18 Jan 2020 07:06 UTC

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 167 | About casualties: 15 | Last hour: 0

Comet Helps Simulate a Rare Volcanic TsunamiSat, 07 Mar 2020 17:02:00 +0100.

When a volcano in or under the ocean violently erupts, the massive upheaval of earth, followed by its rapid descent, can, occasionally, produce a second major disaster: a tsunami. This rare double event has only occurred once in recent hist
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Indonésie: éruption du volcan Merapi, le trafic aérien perturbéWed, 04 Mar 2020 11:55:00 +0100.

Le volcan Merapi en Indonésie, l’un des plus actifs au monde, est entré en éruption mardi, projetant un nuage de cendres géant d’une hauteur de plus de 6.000 mètres qui a contraint un aéroport à fermer. Les autorités indonésiennes n’ont pas
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L'Indonésie ferme l'aéroport après l'éruption du volcan MerapiWed, 04 Mar 2020 06:19:00 +0100.

Les gens observent l'éruption du volcan Merapi le 3 mars 2020. Photo: Reuters. (VNA) - L'aéroport international de la ville de Surakarta (souvent appelée Solo) sur l’île de Java a été fermé temporairement le 3 mars à la suite de l'éruption
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Giava, erutta il vulcano Merapi. Bloccato aeroportoWed, 04 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0100.

Solo (Indonesia), 3 marzo 2020 - Dopo l'eruzione del 2010, che costò la vita a oltre 300 persone , si è risvegliato in Indonesia del vulcano Merapi sull' isola di Giava , circa 520 km a est di Giacarta. Per ora non si segnalano vittime, ma
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (32), (2), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),