Indonesia Volcano Erupting
Posted By thestatedtruth.com on November 6, 2010
MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia…….A surge of searing gas raced down the sides of Mount Merapi at highway speeds Friday, setting houses and trees ablaze and blackening the bodies of those caught in its path.
Merapi’s latest round of eruptions began on Oct. 26, followed by more than a dozen other powerful blasts and thousands of tremors, and has killed more than 118 people since then.
Indonesia is a vast archipelago of 235 million people and is prone to earthquakes and volcanoes because it sits along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” which is a horseshoe-shaped string of faults that lines the Pacific Ocean.
While Friday’s explosion was the largest in volume in a century, an eruption at Merapi back in 1930 killed more than 1,300.
Parts of this story from www.wsj.com
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