The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sun, 08/29/2010 5:25 PM
A safer place: Villagers who flee erupting Mount Sinabung rest at a temporary
shelter in Tanah Karo, North Sumatra, on Sunday. (AP/Binsar Bakkara) |
The government admitted it misjudged Mount Sinabung’s eruption potential after previously deeming the volcano “safe”. The mountain erupted early Sunday morning, forcing thousands of nearby villagers to seek safer locations.
“Four months ago we conducted an earthquake mitigation survey covering West Sumatra, North Sumatra, Bengkulu, Lampung and Aceh. However, at that time we did not prioritize Mt. Sinabung as a disaster prone site,” presidential special aid on natural disasters Andi Arief said on his Twitter account Sunday, as quoted by kompas.com.
Andi’s statement corrected a previous announcement made by Surono, chief of the Medan-based Vulcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center, who said that local residents did not have to worry about increased activity at Mt. Sinabung.
The mountain was considered “not a dangerous volcano,” Surono said.
Another
eruption: Mount Sinabung in Karo Regency, North Sumatra, shows
another eruption
and spews more hot ashes into the air, on Monday.
(Antara/Kiki Cahyadi)
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