Ruang Volcano Eruption Update; New Major Eruption Occurs, Largest on Record

One of the most powerful volcanic eruptions on the planet of the current decade occurred earlier today, sending a plume of ash to a height of 82,000 feet. Pyroclastic flows swept across large sectors of the Ruang volcano, and widespread ash and lapilli was deposited in sections of Indonesia. At least several hundred homes were destroyed or damaged by my own estimate via an eruption which was larger than Ruang’s April 17th eruption. Thumbnail Photo Credit: Bawoleh Yuanita, , Used with Permission. This image was cropped, sharpened, overlaid with text, and then overlaid with GeologyHub made graphics (the GeologyHub logo & the image border). I want to give a special thanks to INGVvulcani / INGV, Progetto UNO (@uno_progetto on Twitter), and Tullio Ricci for allowing me to use footage of the pyroclastic flow. It was posted on the INGVvulcani channel () at under a CC BY