worrying times around mt agung

spicyayam

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Yes, I was expecting more coverage on tv, but there was almost nothing when they raised the warning 2 days ago.

If you look on a map of volcanoes though, basically Indonesia is one long string of volcanoes, so maybe people are just more use to this.

My wife says, unless it is in Java no one cares. How often to do you hear about Mt Sinabung which is also level 4 now.
 

davita

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BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera mention about Mount Agung but not much detail. I wouldn't be surprised if Indonesian TV is asked to tone it down as it is bad for tourism. Some countries have already issued travel advisories.
 

cheynewalk

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I always thought the biggest eruption in "recent times" was lake toba in sumatra some 90,000 years ago ...... according to dna experts it wiped out 90% of the modern human race. But the biggest of all as far as experts can tell was the eruption that created modern day rotorua in new zealand.
 

davita

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I find it humorous that we members are scurrying to find information on previous volcanic eruptions.
I wonder if that's because we have a desire to be part of history or because our smartphones use predictive text and our PC's have a caché that can be interrogated....;)
 

hadodi

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Agung update in the danger area , around 200,000 evacuated
From where did you get this 200.000 number?
A. Titik pengungsian Singaraja
1. Pengungsi = 36.900
2. Petugas. = 1846
Jml. = 38.746 org.

B. Titik pengungsian Abang
1. Pengungsi. = 43.968
2. Petugas. = 2.199
Jml = 46.167 org

C Titik pengungsian Manggis
1. Pengungsi. = 50.830
2. Petugas. = 3.042
Jml = 63.872 org

D. Titik Pengungsian Klk
1. Pengungsi. = 42.381
2. Petugas. = 2.119
Jml = 44.500.

*Jml seluruhnya 193.285 org.*
 

tel522

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ya my wife got it from indo rescue services in east bali , clearly an exageration, the official figure is around 70k ,plus the people who just left to other areas without reporting , as we will be if and when it goes bang !
 

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I live in Ubud area and yesterday it was the first time I didn't feel any small earthquakes at all, which I was feeling quite often over the weekend and on Friday
 
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tel522

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Iv been doing a bit of studying recently, re volcanology for obvious reasons , honestly it seems to me its a bit of a black art , ya agung has all the usual symptoms high numbers of harmonic quakes , the right kind of gas emissions , if the quakes continue or stop, neither is good . its like an overdue birth a lot of wait and see.
 

spicyayam

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I think many people were expecting it to erupt as soon as it hit the level IV mark. If you look at the eruption in 1963, first there were lava flows and then about a month later the eruption. And even a second eruption weeks later.

I can only imagine it would be horrible staying in one of the evacuation camps, especially with kids and for elderly folk. I seems like the evacuees had little time to prepare for the evacuation and now robbers are going into the evacuated homes and helping themselves to anything of value left behind.
 

Melati

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Really...you must have been sitting on a cushion my friend. Around 4:30pm yesterday I felt the bumps in my house in Kerobokan and so did many others in the south....
https://coconuts.co/bali/news/4-2-earthquake-shakes-karangasem-bali-amid-volcano-eruption-fears/amp/
Half of our house is made from wood and three of the walls of the house upstairs are windows, so it has been very easy for me to feel the small earthquakes since last Friday or before, I don't remember when they started but were very often last week, because especially the wood was making noise and I run away to the stairs more than six times. This morning I felt something around 1:30 pm but it was a second and I am not sure about what was it because I was talking to my husband and child and I was downstairs, but yesterday I was the whole day at home and upstairs and felt nothing, but just me, who knows other people.
 

davita

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There was another 4.3 jolt today....http://www.tribunnews.com/regional/2017/09/27/gempa-43-sr-terasa-hingga-denpasar
Getting bigger and bigger....anytime soon.
I already prepared my pool for ash fallout....
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Where did you buy the plastic tarp? Our pool is 10x4 meters. The villa is in Penestanan so I suppose Ace hardware in Gianyar. We are in Sydney at the moment but are booked to fly up on the 15th October. We could get someone, a driver friend of ours, to buy it or them depending on the size of the tarp.
 

davita

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My tarp is 5 x 8 metres and was the biggest Depo Bangunan had....good quality but expensive at nearly Rp700,000.
I suggest you try any Asih Plastik outlet...there's a new one on Jl. Semer in Kerobokan. Their price list below....they have a 9 x 10 meter size but the quality is standard tarp...silver-coloured on the inside....but very suitable for the purpose intended.
You could easily do with two 5 X 6 and attach together.


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Billt4SF

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"Beritabali.com reports that experts who are watching developments at volcanic Mount Agung in Bali are predicting, in the event of an actual eruption, that the volcanic burst will explode to the north in the direction of Kubu Village or to the west towards Selat Village, depending on the prevailing winds at the time of the eruption."

"If an eruption occurs or continues until after November, the wind direction will shift, blowing ash in an easterly direction."

balidiscovery.com
 
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