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Indonesia’s Semeru volcano erupts 5 times in 90 minutes, km-high ash cloud

According to the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation, the first eruption was at 6:29 am local time, with a column of white to grey ash as high as 500 meters heading to the southwest, the second at 6:50 am, launching ash as high as 600 meters above its peak, while the third occurred at 7:28 am, releasing an ash column as high as 700 meters. Volcanic ash was thrown up to 500 meters in the fourth eruption and over 900 meters in the fifth.