Indonesia's volcano Merapi emits hot clouds 1.5km to southwest


JAKARTA, June 21 (Xinhua): Indonesia's most active volcano Merapi located between Special Region of Yogyakarta and Central Java province emitted hot clouds as far as 1.5 kilometres to the southwest on Monday morning, said head of Indonesia's Geological Disaster Technology Research and Development Centre (BPPTKG) Hanik Humaida.

"The hot clouds which occurred at 6:34am local time were recorded by the seismogram with an amplitude of 35 mm and a duration of 113 seconds," she said.

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