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Miami Herald
07-07-2025
- Miami Herald
Australian air travel to Indonesia disrupted by volcano
July 7 (UPI) -- The latest eruption of Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano caused the cancellation of several international flights on Monday. Air travel from Australia to Bali has been temporarily canceled as volcanic material and ash was spewed over 11 miles into the sky as the volcano located on Flores island erupted at around 10 p.m. EDT Sunday. Indonesia's Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation, or PVMBG, of the Geological Agency of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, or ESDM, announced Monday that the volcanic plume was the highest from Lewotobi Laki Laki since 2023. Australian airlines such as Virgin Australia, Jetstar and Qantas have canceled several flights between Australia and Bali following the eruption. There haven't been any reports of damage or injury, but the government has placed an approximately five-mile exclusion zone around the crater and evacuated nearby villages. Lewotobi Laki Laki last erupted in June and similarly caused disruption to air travel then as well, as has its other past eruptions. Copyright 2025 UPI News Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
UPI
07-07-2025
- UPI
Australian air travel to Indonesia disrupted by volcano
The Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano on Flores Island, Indonesia in June. File Photo by PVMBG/EPA-EFE July 7 (UPI) -- The latest eruption of Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano caused the cancellation of several international flights on Monday. Air travel from Australia to Bali has been temporarily canceled as volcanic material and ash was spewed over 11 miles into the sky as the volcano located on Flores island erupted at around 10 p.m. EDT Sunday. Indonesia's Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation, or PVMBG, of the Geological Agency of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, or ESDM, announced Monday that the volcanic plume was the highest from Lewotobi Laki Laki since 2023. Australian airlines such as Virgin Australia, Jetstar and Qantas have canceled several flights between Australia and Bali following the eruption. There haven't been any reports of damage or injury, but the government has placed an approximately five-mile exclusion zone around the crater and evacuated nearby villages. Lewotobi Laki Laki last erupted in June and similarly caused disruption to air travel then as well, as has its other past eruptions.
Al Jazeera
21-03-2025
- Al Jazeera
Indonesian volcano sends ash cloud 8km high, some flights cancelled
An eruption by Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano, located in the southeastern part of Flores Island, spewed ash clouds more than 8km (5 miles) into the air, disrupting flights and raising emergency warnings to the highest level for residents and tourists. Indonesia's Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation warned locals and visitors on Friday against activities within a radius of 7-8km (4.4-5 miles) in the southwest and northeast sectors of the eruption. 'The ash column was observed grey to black with thick intensity,' Indonesia's volcanology agency said in a statement about the eruption that began at 10:56pm local time on Thursday night (14:56 GMT). There were no immediate reports of damage to nearby villages, but the agency warned residents of the potential for volcanic mudflow due to heavy rainfall. The long eruption prompted the country's geological agency to raise the volcano's alert level to the highest of the four-tiered system. Jetstar – Australia's Qantas Airways' low-cost subsidiary – cancelled flights from Australia to the Indonesian holiday island of Bali on Friday morning because of the volcanic ash. Flights were expected to resume by the afternoon. Lewotobi Laki-Laki's eruption was followed by a tsunami warning from the Japan Meteorological Agency, which did not transpire. The volcano previously erupted last November, killing at least 10 people and displacing thousands.
