Volcanic Ash from the Eruption of Mount Merapi

Since the end of October 2010, the Mount Merapi, located in Central Java province, Indonesia continues to remove lava and volcanic ash. The eruption of this time was the largest eruption of the previously occurred.

Vomit volcanic ash that spread to hundreds of kilometers, even in the city of Bandung, West Java.

Mbah Marijan in Memoriam

Raden Ngabehi Surakso Hargo or better known as Mbah Marijan (real name: Mas Penewu Surakso Hargo; born in the hamlet of Kinahrejo, Village Umbulharjo, Cangkringan, Sleman, 1927; died in Sleman, Yogyakarta, October 26, 2010 age 83 years) is an interpreter Key Mount Merapi. Work as a caretaker was obtained from Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwana IX. Each Mount Merapi would erupt, local residents are always waiting for the command from him to flee.

He took office as a caretaker deputy in 1970. Position as a caretaker and his clothing since 1982. Since the incidence of Mount Merapi would erupt in 2006, Mbah Maridjan increasingly popular.

Merapi Volcano Erupts Again

Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia once again erupted on October 26, 2010. Heavy casualties in the incident. Here are some photos of the time of the eruption of Mount Merapi:

Beautiful Scenery at Galunggung Mountain

Mountain with an altitude of 2.167 m asl, is located 20km southwest of the city of Tasikmalaya, West Java, Indonesia. In history In recent times had erupted, most recently in 1982. The last eruption of type "vulcanian vertical" (such as the atomic bomb explosion fungi) reaches a height of 20 km into the sky, followed by bursts of piroclastic (fine dust) that plied the city of Bandung, Tasik, Garut, Cianjur and other cities MLP radius of 100km. Thick dust for four months who flushed at that cities. who create enough misery. After the eruption, average 100 000 ha area around the ground with crushed stone, lava and dust, the peak of the mountain had collapsed drifting on to the regions surrounding cold lava, rocks and sand was a blessing who do not habis2nya to be mined.

Activities of Sulphur Miner at Kawah Ijen

Ijen is an acidic crater lake at the top of Mount Ijen, East Java, has a height of 2368 meters above sea level with a depth of 200 meters and the area of the lake crater reached 5466 hectares. Crater in the territory of Nature Reserve Nature Trail Ijen Bondowoso, East Java.

To reach Ijen, you have to down a path along the caldera cliffs. Do not forget to bring life cover because sometimes the sulfur smoke is blown through the track. You can also surround the caldera in the region which takes eight to 10 hours to reach on foot.

There, many miners Sulfur their activities. Armed with crude equipment, they try to mine the sulfur as their livelihood. Look at how hard they Sulphur mine, please refer here on.

Amazing Pic Lava Flow

Coherent lava can be formed as a result of outward movement of magma to the surface of the earth. In the movement of magma can really get out into the earth's surface is melted (effusive eruptions), or frozen near the surface, or partly frozen on the bottom and partly frozen on the surface of the earth. The frozen magma near the surface is known as shallow igneous intrusion. Synonym for this shallow igneous intrusions are numerous, among other sub-volcanic intrusive rocks, volcanic rocks spring, subvolcanic intrusions, high-level intrusives, shallow intrusions, low-level intrusions, syn-volcanic intrusions

Amazing Volcanic Eruption

Volcanic eruption is the result of precipitation events that occur within the bowels of the earth magma is forced out of pressurized gas.

Magma is the liquid contained in the fluorescent layer of earth with a very high temperature, ie, estimated at more than 1000 ° C. Liquid magma that comes out of the earth is called lava. Temperatures could reach the lava issued 700-1200 ° C. Volcanic eruptions that brought rock and ash can be sprayed as far as a radius of 18 km or more, while lavanya be flooded as far as 90 km radius.