Mount Agung briefly erupts again, officials maintain volcano’s ‘standby’ status
Bali’s Mount Agung erupted again at 12:12pm today, sending a moderate plume of ash as high as 1,000 meters above the volcano’s peak, Indonesia’s Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center (PVMBG) said shortly after the eruption.
In a statement, PVMBG maintained that the volcano remains at level alert level three, or “standby” status and reiterated the need to maintain an exclusion zone of 4km in radius from the volcano’s crater. The center also cautioned that the estimated danger zone could change at any time.
“The estimated danger zone is dynamic … so it could change at any time following the latest developments based on observations of Mount Agung,” PVMBG said in the statement.
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Today’s eruption, which lasted for about one minute, did not seem to have any affect on arrivals or departures at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport.
Mount Agung last erupted on May 31, sending a massive plume of ash as high as 2,000 meters above the volcano’s peak.