KEDIRI - Indonesia's volcano center says that the Mount Kelud volcano in eastern Java has not erupted yet, as earlier reported on Saturday. "There was no eruption. If there had been an eruption, our equipment near the crater would have been damaged," told Surono, head of the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation.
Earlier on Saturday, officials from the center said that their monitoring instruments near the crater had indicated an eruption had started. This could not be visually confirmed however because of heavy cloud cover and fog. Surono said that tremors had continued for hours and the temperature of the crater lake had dramatically increased as well, causing volcanologists at the observation post fearing for their own safety.
"Temperatures rose 2 degrees Celsius in a day. This was an extremely sharp increase. On other volcanoes such phenomena would have resulted in heat clouds," Surono said. Umar Rosadi, one of the scientists monitoring the volcano, together with 17 colleagues have returned to their posts after just three hours. "There has not been an eruption. All of our equipment works normally," he told.
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KEDIRI - Indonesia's volcano center says that the Mount Kelud volcano in eastern Java has not erupted yet, as earlier reported on Saturday. "There was no eruption. If there had been an eruption, our equipment near the crater would have been damaged," told Surono, head of the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation.
