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Indonesian authorities person raised the alert level for the Mount Bur Ni Telong volcano successful the country's westernmost state of Aceh to its 2nd highest pursuing a bid of accrued enactment and volcanic earthquakes, authoritative said connected Wednesday (December 31, 2025).
The 2,624-meter (8,600-foot) stratovolcano successful Aceh's Bener Meriah regency recorded astatine slightest 7 earthquakes connected Tuesday (December 30, 2025) evening that were felt astir 5 kilometers (three miles) away, portion seismographs besides detected 7 shallow volcanic earthquakes on with 14 heavy quakes and 2 tectonic quakes, said Lana Saria, the acting caput of the Geological Agency astatine Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry.
She said based connected the results of ocular and instrumental monitoring which amusement the occurrence of accrued volcanic enactment for Mount Bur Ni Telong, scientists raised the alert level from the 3rd to the 2nd highest level connected Tuesday evening.
“Aftershocks pursuing section tectonic events bespeak magma enactment is easy triggered by tectonic disturbances,” Ms. Saria said, adding that the summation successful seismic enactment has been ongoing since July and became much aggravated and shallow successful the past 2 months.
The agency's ocular monitoring showed the volcano intelligibly disposable with nary crater smoke. However, she warned of imaginable eruption, including phreatic blasts and hazardous volcanic gases adjacent areas with fumaroles and solfataras, openings successful the Earth's crust that emit steam and gases.
Authorities urged residents and visitors to enactment astatine slightest 4 kilometers (2.4 miles) from the crater and debar fumarole and solfatara zones during cloudy oregon rainy upwind due to the fact that state concentrations tin beryllium life-threatening.
The heightened alert came arsenic the Bener Meriah country is inactive recovering from catastrophic floods and landslides earlier this period that struck 52 cities and regencies connected Sumatra island, leaving 1,141 radical dormant with 163 residents inactive missing and much than 7,000 injured, the National Disaster Management Agency said. In Bener Meriah alone, 31 radical died and 14 are inactive missing aft the floods and landslides deed the regency, disrupting entree to distant villages and displacing much than 2,100 residents.
Local media said radical surviving successful 3 villages wrong a 2-kilometer (1.2-mile) radius from the crater are being evacuated arsenic officials fearfulness that dense rains combined with volcanic enactment could worsen conditions and complicate evacuation efforts.
Indonesia, an archipelago of much than 280 cardinal people, has implicit 120 progressive volcanoes. It is prone to volcanic enactment due to the fact that it sits on the “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped bid of seismic responsibility lines astir the Pacific Ocean.
