A famed Indonesian volcano whose last great eruption in December 2018 triggered a deadly tsunami spewed a 500-foot column of ash Saturday, according to reports.
Anak Krakatau volcano, which is located in the Sunda Strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra, has been continuously erupting since Saturday morning, with CCTV footage from Indonesia’s Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation showing lava flares Friday night, according to the Associated Press.
“[The eruption is] still within the expected level for a disaster-prone area. Continued eruptions could potentially occur, but there has been no detection of volcanic activity that could lead to greater eruption intensity,” Kasbani, the head of the Center, said, according to the Jakarta Post.
No injuries were reported in the explosion, as the nation braces itself against the coronavirus, according to the outlet.
In 2018, the volcano’s eruption induced an underwater landslide leading to a massive tsunami along the coasts of Sumatra and Java, and killed 430 people.
The volcano – whose name means ‘Child of Krakatoa’ – was emerged from the remnants of the Krakatoa volcano, whose 1883 eruption killed more than 36,000 people in one of the most devastating natural disasters in history, and caused a period of global cooling, according to the Jakarta Post.