{"id":325770,"date":"2026-04-14T14:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=325770"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:32:38","slug":"mount-semeru-erupts-sends-pyroclastic-flows-3-km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=325770","title":{"rendered":"Mount Semeru erupts, sends pyroclastic flows 3 km"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/aktivitas-vulaknik-gunung-semeru-lumajang-16022024-IS-6-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-286414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/aktivitas-vulaknik-gunung-semeru-lumajang-16022024-IS-6-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/aktivitas-vulaknik-gunung-semeru-lumajang-16022024-IS-6-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/aktivitas-vulaknik-gunung-semeru-lumajang-16022024-IS-6-1-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/aktivitas-vulaknik-gunung-semeru-lumajang-16022024-IS-6-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/aktivitas-vulaknik-gunung-semeru-lumajang-16022024-IS-6-1-555x370.jpg 555w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/aktivitas-vulaknik-gunung-semeru-lumajang-16022024-IS-6-1.jpg 1653w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>LUMAJANG (EAST JAVA), April 14 (ANTARA) &#8211; Mount Semeru in East Java erupted Tuesday morning, sending pyroclastic flows up to 3 kilometers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;An eruption occurred at 5:22 a.m. local time, with an ash column rising around 1,500 meters above the peak, or 5,176 meters above sea level,&#8221; Mount Semeru Observation Post officer Sigit Rian Alfian said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A thick gray ash column drifted westward. The eruption was recorded on a seismograph with a maximum amplitude of 20 mm and lasted three minutes and 23 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The eruption was accompanied by pyroclastic flows traveling three kilometers toward the southeast, or the Besuk Kobokan area,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flows did not reach residential areas as the affected zone is designated a red zone. Authorities set a safe radius of 13 kilometers from the summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The volcano, located on the border of Lumajang and Malang districts, erupted again at 6:03 a.m., sending an ash column about 1,000 meters above the peak, or 4,676 meters above sea level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A thick white-to-gray ash column drifted southwest. The eruption was recorded on a seismograph with a maximum amplitude of 22 mm and lasted 135 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alfian said Mount Semeru remains at Level III (Alert). Residents are prohibited from activities in the southeastern sector along Besuk Kobokan within a 13-kilometer radius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond that, residents are advised to stay at least 500 meters from riverbanks along Besuk Kobokan due to the risk of pyroclastic flows and lahars reaching up to 17 kilometers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The public is also banned from activities within a 5-kilometer radius of the crater due to the risk of ejected incandescent materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He warned of potential pyroclastic flows, lava avalanches, and lahars along rivers originating from the summit, including Besuk Kobokan, Besuk Bang, Besuk Kembar, and Besuk Sat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-ANTARA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUMAJANG (EAST JAVA), April 14 (ANTARA) &#8211; Mount Semeru in East Java erupted Tuesday morning, sending pyroclastic flows up to 3 kilometers. &#8220;An eruption occurred at 5:22 a.m. local time, with an ash column rising around 1,500 meters above the peak, or 5,176 meters above sea level,&#8221; Mount Semeru Observation Post officer Sigit Rian Alfian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":286414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,322],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325770"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325771,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325770\/revisions\/325771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}