'No warning': Indonesian village caught off guard in volcano disaster

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PENANGGAL (Indonesia) — In the wake of the deadly Semeru eruption on Indonesia's Java island, the entwined bodies of a mother and daughter encased in molten ash have come to symbolise what many living in the shadow of the volcano feel went wrong.

"There was no warning. If there had been, there wouldn't have been victims, right?" said Ms Minah, of her cousin Rumini, who died clutching her elderly mother as their kitchen roof caved in. Like many Indonesians, they use only one name.

Officials said some messages were sent to local administrators but acknowledged they did not result in an evacuation order, in part because the volcano's activity is hard to predict. In Javanese, the village's name Curah Kobokan means"pouring bowl", a reference to the river that snakes by it. Once a source of life, the river would also become the community's downfall.

The head of Indonesia's geological agency, Dr Eko Budi Lelono, says messages were sent to local officials warning of hot ash clouds. The river near Curah Kobokan, he said, was marked red on the map.Mr Dino Adalananto of the East Java disaster mitigation agency says the warnings were passed on to local resilience officers but there were no specific orders to evacuate. The head of Curah Kobokan could not be reached.

Eruptions triggered by lava dome collapses account for about six per cent of all volcanic eruptions, says Dr Handley, with more research needed to understand the characteristics and causes.

 

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