Overall Green alert Volcanic eruption for Sinabung
in Indonesia

Event summary

GREEN alert: The Sinabung Volcanic eruption is unlikely to require external humanitarian assistance based on the exposed population and coping capacity.

GDACS ID VO 1000029
Name: Sinabung
Lat/Lon: 3.17 , 98.392
Event Date: 29 Jul 2021 UTC
Exposed Population 30km: About 260000 people within 30km
Exposed Population 100km: About 8200000 people within 100km
Max Volc. Explosivity Index VEI: 2
Population Exposure Index PEI: 5
Inserted at: 29 Jul 2021 05:42 UTC

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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

The Smithsonian/USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report provides information about global volcanism on a weekly basis. Latest Sinabung report has been published on 28 Jul 2021 08:35.
PVMBG reported that white-and-gray plumes rose 100-300 m above Sinabung during 20-21 July and drifted N, NE, E, and SE. During 21-27 July white plumes rose as high as 400 m and drifted NE, E, and SE. At 1320 on 28 July an eruption produced an ash plume that rose 4.5 km above the summit and drifted E and S; the event lasted for about 12 and a half minutes. The Aviation Color Code was raised to Red. The Alert Level remained at 2 (on a scale of 1-4), and the public was warned to remain outside of the 2-km exclusion zone. Source: Pusat Vulkanologi dan Mitigasi Bencana Geologi (PVMBG, also known as CVGHM)
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (32), (2), INGV (2), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),