Mount Soputan Erupts

Sunday (03/07/2011) morning, Mount Soputan located in the province of North Sulawesi during a period of eruptions, and issued an explosion of incandescent material. Showers of incandescent material issued by the mountains as high as 1784 meters, in the form of volcanic materials from the bowels of the mountain as a cloud of heat very dangerous.
"Today at 6:03 PT, there was an eruption of up to 6000 meters with the clouds of heat that leads to the west side of Mount Soputan," said Chiefs President of the Special Administration disaster, Andi Arief, in a statement received by AFP on Sunday (3 / 7 / 2011).
Volcanology and Disaster Mitigation Center (PVMBG) on Friday (07/02/2011), has raised the alert status of Mount Soputan standby.
In 2008 during the eruption of Mount Soputan by bursts of glowing hot cloud, which reached a distance of 6.5 km to the summit. This volcanic activity caused by fires around the slopes of Mount Soputan.

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Mount Soputan

Soputan is a stratovolcano in the northern part of the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. He sits on the southern edge of the caldera Tondano, which is built in the Quaternary period, and is one of the most active volcanoes of Sulawesi.
In 2004 it erupted lava oozing down its southwest slope. No deaths. Morning of June 6, 2008, was disbanded by sending heat clouds of debris up to 4 km along the slopes, 2 km, and ash into the air. It 'broke again at 21:03 UTC on July 2, 2011 spewing ash and smoke from a height of 5000 meters.

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