( 1.8 miles) at least six times since the morning as the volcano groaned and rumbled, said Hanik Humaida

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia--A volcanic eruption on Indonesia’s turbulent Mount Merapi churned and boiled Monday, sending renewed flows of lava and ash down its slopes for a second day. Pyroclastic flows — avalanches of rock, ash and volcanic gas — burst from the mountain's actively growing lava dome inside the crater. The 2, 968-meter( 9, 737-foot) peak is near Yogyakarta, an ancient city of several hundred thousand people embedded in a large metro area on the island of Java.... The city is a center

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia( AP)--A volcanic eruption on Indonesia's turbulent Mount Merapi churned and boiled Monday, sending renewed flows of lava and ash down its slopes for a second day.... The 2, 968-meter( 9, 737-foot) peak is near Yogyakarta, an ancient city of several hundred thousand people embedded in a large metro area on the island of Java.... The city is a center of Javanese culture and a seat of royal dynasties going back centuries....

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia--Indonesia’s most active volcano erupted Monday with its biggest lava flow in months, sending a river of lava and searing gas clouds flowing 3.5 kilometers( more than 2 miles) down its slopes on the densely populated island of Java. The rumbling sound could be heard several kilometers( miles) away as Mount Merapi erupted, sending hot ash 600 meters( nearly 2, 000 feet) into the sky.... Ash blanketed nearby towns, but long-established evacuation orders are in place near the

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s most active volcano erupted Monday with its biggest lava flow in months, sending a river of lava and searing gas clouds flowing 3.5 kilometers( more than 2 miles) down its slopes on the densely populated island of Java. Support our journalism.... Subscribe today.... arrow-right The rumbling sound could be heard several kilometers( miles) away as Mount Merapi erupted, sending hot ash 600 meters( nearly 2, 000 feet) into the sky....

JAKARTA( XINHUA)-Indonesia's most active volcano Merapi emitted ash clouds three times as far as 3km to the south-east, with ashes spreading to areas in Yogyakarta. The hot clouds erupted three times at 4. 43am local time with an amplitude of 75mm.... The first clouds ran for 61 seconds, the second for 131 seconds and the third, 245 seconds." A column of smokes was observed as high as 1, 000m high above its peak," said head of the Geological Disaster Technology Research and Development Centre H

MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia--Indonesia’s Mount Merapi erupted Saturday with avalanches of searing gas clouds and lava, forcing authorities to halt tourism and mining activities on the slopes of the country’s most active volcano. Merapi, on the densely populated island of Java, unleashed clouds of hot ash and a mixture of rock, lava and gas that traveled up to 7 kilometers( 4.3 miles) down its slopes.... A column of hot clouds rose 100 meters( yards) into the air, said the National Disaster Manageme