The meaning of Mount Merapi is Fire Mountain now days it is justifying their name with continuance of eruption for several weeks. Volcanic gases, bomb and bulging out of lava from the crater to the slopes has seen by the spectators on Wednesday, the blast was three time more intense than it was at 26th of October, the fiery explosion created new set of casualties. Earlier volcanologists thought that excess energy has released from the previous eruption and now chances of violent eruption is minimum however the Wednesday eruption once again proved that it is not easy to predict what is building up in magma chamber even the needle of the seismograph not giving any clue.
After the several week of devastating eruption that forced more than 70000 people to evacuate their place and get safe shelter under the rain of rocks and debris from the sky. The Mount Merapi has history of devastation in 1930 eruption 1300 people died and dozens of village affected, in 1994 eruption 60 people were killed and in current incident 38 people have died since eruption taken place.
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