Merapi - Indonesia's very active Volcano viewed from Jogjakarta
Gunung Merapi is active, regularly erupting. It has a history of large, destructive eruptions and because of its proximity to densely populated areas, in particular Jogjakarta and the many towns and villages around it and acending its slopes, there have been tragedies that have taken human lives.
It is a stratovolcano and has had a variety of eruptions: basaltic lava flows (earliest), andesitic flows, ash eruptions, explosions, steam-blast eruptions (Phreatic), pyroclastic flows.
(Merapi = fire moutain)
Merapi - Indonesia's very active Volcano viewed from Jogjakarta
Gunung Merapi is active, regularly erupting. It has a history of large, destructive eruptions and because of its proximity to densely populated areas, in particular Jogjakarta and the many towns and villages around it and acending its slopes, there have been tragedies that have taken human lives.
It is a stratovolcano and has had a variety of eruptions: basaltic lava flows (earliest), andesitic flows, ash eruptions, explosions, steam-blast eruptions (Phreatic), pyroclastic flows.
(Merapi = fire moutain)