People were advised to stay 3.1 miles from the crater’s mouth, the agency said. Television reports showed people screaming and running under a huge ash cloud, their faces wet from rain mixed with volcanic dust....
Semeru, the stratovolcano, is also known as Mahameru, meaning “ the Great Mountain ” in Sanskrit....
Still, as with other volcanoes — it is one of 129 under watch in Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelago — more than 62, 000 people call Sumeru’s fertile slopes home....
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洛杉矶时报-世界与民族
2021-12-05 00:00:00.0
