What's going on: Indonesian volcano erupts a day after tsunami kills more than 100 people

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From The Christian Science Monitor:

A volcanic eruption on Java, Indonesia's most populous island, sent thousands of panicked villagers fleeing from their homes as government officials attempted to assess the full damage from a tsunami in western Indonesia that killed more than 100 people less than 24 hours earlier.

Officials in Central Java were responding to the eruption late Tuesday of Mount Merapi, one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes. Volcanologists who had been monitoring Merapi since last week raised the alert status to its highest level Monday, ordering thousands of people living within six miles of the crater to evacuate.

Off the coast of Sumatra, roughly 1,100 miles away, Indonesian emergency responders were still assessing the impact of Monday's tsunami. The head of Indonesia’s disaster management agency, Wisnu Wijaya, said the local government sent a rapid response team Tuesday afternoon with basic medical supplies and communication equipment to determine what was needed on the remote Mentawai Islands, where a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck late Monday night triggering a 10-foot-high tsunami that displaced thousands land left more than 500 missing.

» Read the story: Tsunami and volcano response: Indonesia assesses back-to-back disasters [The Christian Science Monitor]
» 24 Hours of Agony: Indonesia Hit By Deadly Tsunami, Then Volcano [Time magazine]
» 13 injured as Indonesian volcano spews hot ash [Hindustan Times]
» Indonesia Dealing With Disasters on Two Fronts [The New York Times]
» Indonesian tsunami kills 108, hundreds missing [Reuters]

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