Indonesia

This is What Much of Java Looks After the Eruption of Mount Kelud

Thousands have been evacuated and cities are covered in ash

By Feb. 14, 2014
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A man wears a mask as he rides a becak, a kind of rickshaw, on a road covered with from Mount Kelud, in Yogyakarta

Dwi Oblo / Reuters

A man wears a mask as he rides a becak, a kind of rickshaw, on a road covered with from Mount Kelud, in Yogyakarta February 14, 2014.

Officials in Indonesia have reportedly urged more than 100,000 people to relocate after Java’s Mount Kelud erupted twice on Thursday morning sending ash and earth high into the atmosphere. Two people have reportedly died during the eruption’s aftermath.

Indonesia’s second-largest city Surabaya was covered in at least one inch of ash following the tectonic activity.  According to the AP, international airports in Jogyakarta, Solo and Surabaya were shuttered on Friday “due to reduced visibility and the dangers posed to aircraft engines by ash.”