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Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki: One of Indonesia's most active volcanoes erupts
One of the Indonesia's most active volcanoes, Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, began erupting on Tuesday sending large plumes of ash and smoke high into the powerful eruption saw a huge volcanic ash clouds reaching nearly seven miles into the living in nearby villages were moved to safety and several flights to and from the popular neighbouring tourist island of Bali were also in the country have raised regional alerts to their highest level and have asked residents and tourists to avoid the area close to the volcano.
Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki - what's happened?
The south-east Asian country of Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 experiences frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity due to its position on the Pacific Ring of Lewotobi Laki-laki is a 1,584m high volcano located on the tourist island of twin-peaked volcano has erupted multiple times in the past few months - most recently in latest eruption saw volcanic ash sent more than 6.8 miles (nearly 11km) into the and dust covered roads and roofs of local neighbourhoods and people in some nearby villages were moved to have raised the alert level of the volcano to the most severe, warning of possible lava flows if heavy rain flights to and from nearby Indonesian resort island of Bali were cancelled or delayed due to the huge ash added that tremors were still being detected on Wednesday, indicating ongoing volcanic which means "man" in Indonesian, is twinned with the calmer but taller 1,703m volcano named Perempuan, the Indonesian word for "woman".
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
The Ring of Fire refers to a string of volcanoes, earthquake sites and tectonic plates around the spreads across around 25,000 miles from the southern tip of South America all the way to New plates, huge slabs of the Earth's crust, are not fixed but are constantly move on top a of layer of solid and molten these pieces move they can cause earthquakes or volcanoes, or both. Roughly 90% of all earthquakes occur along this area and the ring is dotted with 75% of all active volcanoes on Earth - that's 452 individual active volcanoes.
