Mount Merapi erupted
Mount Merapi's eruptions
Since its initial eruptions on October 25th, Indonesia's Mount Merapi continues to spew hot
gases and ash as far as 5,000 meters into the atmosphere, wreaking havoc on surrounding
villages and farms, and disrupting air travel - and more than 140 people have been killed by
the eruptions over the past two weeks. Hundreds of thousands of residents have been displ-
aced,many of them living in temporary shelters until the Indonesian government reduces the
existing 20 km "safe zone", and allows them and their livestock to return. Collected here are
recent images from the area near the unpredictable Mount Merapi as it still rumbles and erupts.