The Mountain Kelud in Indonesia

There is several news that saying prediction the kelud mountain of Indonesia will be explode that make a Hundreds of people have started to remove from the dangerous zone, in slope of Mount. Kelud in the densely populated area of East Java province as the volcano threatens to erupt, Health Ministry said.

The head of crisis center of the ministry Rustam Pakaya said that the evacuees were those in the category of high risk persons, such as pregnant women, babies, children, old persons and crippling people.

"Hundreds people have begun to be evacuated. We give priority to secure the high risk population,"Pakaya told Xinhua.

The head of the center said that the removal is due to a fear that the volcano may erupt.

The evacuees would be sheltered in a secure place in the radius of more than eleven kilometers from the mountain, he said.

"There is a possibility that the volcano can erupt,"he said.

Based on its short eruption cycle of once in 17 years, the volcano, which last erupt in 1990 and now in the second-highest alert status, was possible to explode this year, the head of surveillance of the country's Volcanology and Mitigation Center Yan Saut Simatupang has said.

The center has risen to the alert status of the mountain since the end of last month because of because of the increases of temperatures, the contents of carbon dioxide (CO2) and sulfate (SO4) in the waters surface in the crater.

Besides, the rises of frequent of volcanic tremors, number of waters bubble emerging to the surface of the waters in the crater and the change of color of the waters.

The rise of the status was followed by the issuance of a warning avoid the territory in the radius of five kilometers, the center said.

Pakaya said that hundred thousands of masks had been distributed and air quality control was persistently carried out.

He said there is still thousands risk populations living near the mountain in the regencies of Kekdiri and Blitar.

Preparation on the medical treatment, including health facilities and medical personals, has been made in the two regencies, he said.

Over ten thousand people were killed when the mountain exploded in 1586. The mountain exploded

Then the mountain exploded in 1901, 1919, 1951, 1966 and 1990.

Mount. Kelud is parts of the country's 129 active volcanoes, which sixty-six of them are located in high-density population areas, Java and Sumatra islands, according to the meteorology agency.

Indonesia is laid at a vulnerable zone so called "The Pacific Ring of Fire" where two continental plates, stretching from the Western Hemisphere through Japan and Southeast Asia, meet that cause frequent volcanic movements.

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