LIVING WITH MOUNT
MERAPI, INDONESIA
APRIL- MAY 2006
MOUNT MERAPI
 ANOTHER
INDONESIAN
VOLCANO,
KRAKATOA,
ERUPTED IN 1883,
SENDING ASH, DUST,
AND PARTICLES
AROUND THE WORLD.
 MOUNT MERAPI,
2914 M (9640 FT)
HIGH, IS KNOWN AS
“FIRE MOUNTAIN,”
 ITS LAST ERUPTION
WAS IN 1994.
 IN THE 1994
ERUPTION, A HOT
GAS CLOUD KILLED
60 PEOPLE.
MOUNT MERAPI
MOUNT MERAPI
 INDONESIA IS A LAND OF 220 MILLION
PEOPLE AND 129 ACTIVE VOLCANOES.
 INDONESIA IS KNOWN AS THE “LAND OF
FIRE.”
 MOUNT MERAPI IS LOCATED IN THE
MOST DENSLY POPULATED PART OF
INDONESIA
TOURISTS OBSERVING MOUNT
MERAPI ON APRIL 20, 2006
MOUNT MERAPI SHOWING SIGNS
OF LIFE ON APRIL 22, 2006
SOME EVACUATE BY FLEEING
TO THE FOOTHILLS
MOUNT MERAPI VENTS ON
MAY 5, 2006
FARMER WORKS WHILE MOUNT
MERAPI VENTS ON MAY 6, 2006
MOUNT MERAPI SHOWS SIGNS
OF ERUPTING ON MAY 7, 2006
INITIAL GROUP OF EVACUEES
RETURN HOME ON MAY 7
ADDITIONAL EVACUEES
WAITING TO RETURN, MAY 9
PART OF LARGE EVACUATION
ON MAY 11
MOUNT MERAPI
 THE GOVERNMENT OF INDONESIA
ISSUED THE HIGHEST ALERT FOR
MERAPI ON SATURDAY, MAY 13.
 SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, MOSQUES, AND
MILITARY COLLABORATED IN HELPING
AN ESTIMATE4D 30,000 PEOPLE
EVACUATE.
MOUNT MERAPI THREAT
INCREASES ON MAY 14, 2006
MOUNT MERAPI ON MAY 15, 2006
MOUNT MERAPI EMITS LARGE
CLOUD OF HOT GASES, MAY 15
MAY 15 ERUPTION OF MOUNT
MERAPI
 VULCANOLOGISTS BELIEVED THAT THE
ERUPTION ON MONDAY, MAY 15, WHICH
BLEW OUT A 2 ½ MILES WIDE CLOUD
OF DEADLY GAS, ASH, AND ROCK,, WAS
THE MAJOR ERUPTION THAT
EVERYONE WAS EXPECTING.
PRESIDENT YUDHOYNO AND
FIRST LADY ON MAY 16
ON MAY 17, MOUNT MERAPI
SHOWED IT WAS NOT THROUGH
 AFTER TWO DAYS OF QUIESENCE,
ANOTHER ERUPTION.
 IT WAS ANOTHER OF THOSE “GAS
CLOUDS” LIKE THE ONE IN 1994.
 IT WAS MOVING AT 100 TO 160 KM/HR
(60 TO 100 MI/HR).
 THE GAS CLOUD WAS DEADLY,
BECAUSE IT WAS SUPER HEATED TO
AROUND 950 DEGREES F.
MOUNT MERAPI ERUPTS ON
MAY 17
MOUNT MERAPI ERUPTS ON
MAY 17
WORKING IN VOLCANIC ASH
FROM MOUNT MERAPI, MAY 17
A LAVA DOME IS GROWING ON
MOUNT MERAPI
NEW CONCERN AT MOUNT
MERAPI
 DURING MAY, MOUNT MERAPI, WHICH IS
CALLED “FIRE MOUNTAIN,” BUILT UP A LAVA
DOME OF MORE THAN 90 M (300 FT) ON TOP
OF A 2914 M (9,640 FT) SUMMIT.
 AT PRESENT, THE FEAR IS THAT THE LAVA
DOME WILL EXPLODE AND SEND RIVERS OF
LAVA DOWN THE SOUTH SLOPE OF MERAPI.
 FIFTEEN VILLAGES ARE LOCATED ON THE
SOUTH SLOPE.