{"id":53119,"date":"2024-06-06T15:54:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T05:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=53119"},"modified":"2024-06-06T15:54:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T05:54:13","slug":"indonesia-volcano-erupts-three-times-5-km-ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=53119","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia volcano erupts three times, 5 km ash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted three times on Thursday, belching an ash tower five kilometres into the sky and spewing lava against a backdrop of lightning, according to the Geological Agency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mount Ibu, located on the island of Halmahera in North Maluku province, erupted Thursday morning shortly after 1:00 am (1600 GMT Wednesday) and then<br \/>\nagain at 7:46 am and 8:11 am, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The initial eruption spewed an ash tower more than 5,000 metres (16,400 feet) above the peak, according to a statement on the agency&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>The latter eruption lasted around two minutes and caused an ash column that &#8220;was observed around 1,000 metres above the peak,&#8221; Geological Agency head Muhammad Wafid said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The agency advised residents and tourists to stay out of an exclusion zone between four and seven kilometres from Ibu&#8217;s crater and to wear eye and mouth coverings when outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>The eruptions were the latest in a series of huge belches that forced authorities to evacuate more than half a dozen villages last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted three times on Thursday, belching an ash tower five kilometres into the sky and spewing lava against a backdrop of lightning, according to the Geological Agency. Mount Ibu, located on the island of Halmahera in North Maluku province, erupted Thursday morning shortly after 1:00 am (1600 GMT Wednesday) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1688,1689],"class_list":["post-53119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-5-km-ash","tag-indonesia-volcano-erupts-three-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}