Around 50,000 islanders have been evacuated from Bali, Indonesia amid fears of an imminent volcanic eruption from Mount Agung.
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— Indonesian Red Cross (@palangmerah) September 25, 2017
The volcano has been shaking since August along with a rising threat level.
Bali’s Disaster Mitigation agency said 48,540 people had fled out of 60,000 living in the danger zone.
Via The Guardian
“There are still people who don’t want to be evacuated,” Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, an agency spokesman, said. “The reason is firstly, the mountain hasn’t erupted yet. Secondly, they are worried about their livestock.”
Officials announced the highest possible alert level on Friday after the increasing volcanic activity, and told people to stay at least 5.6 miles from the crater.
Evacuees have packed into temporary shelters or moved in with relatives. About 2,000 cows have been also moved from the flanks of the volcano.
Nengah Satiya left home with his wife three days ago, but said he had been returning from an evacuation centre to the danger zone to tend to his pigs and chickens.
“There are many livestock in our village but nobody is taking care of them,” he said. “We take turns going back to feed them.”
The Indonesian Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation said the mountain was still being rocked by hundreds of volcanic tremors.
Mt Agung is one of over 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia, previously erupting in 1963 when it killed over 1,000 people and spewed ashes as far as Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta, over 750 miles away.
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— Leonhard Effendy (@OutAndAboutOn2) September 26, 2017
It is almost like some grim reaper eugenics bastard showed up on teevee pumping population control “vaccines”. Then everyone must do what they are told. Run sucker run. And. Visit the company store. They have “medicine”.
If one chooses to live w/i active volcanoes area one should also be prepared to flee. Cannot have one w/o the other.