The status of Mount Anak Krakatau was reduced to alert

KRAKATAU - JAKARTA. Starting from March 25, 2019 at 12.00 WIB, the Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation (PVMBG), the Geological Agency of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) reduced the status of Mount Anak Krakatau from level III (standby) to level II (alert) with a safe radius to be 2 kilometers from the previous 5 kilometers.

The decision was the result of observations and analysis of visual and instrumental data until March 25, 2019, which showed that the activity level of Mount Anak Krakatau tended to decrease even though it fluctuated little.

But the potential for eruption still exists with a small intensity compared to the period of December 2018 eruption. Besides, the distribution of hazardous eruption material is only spread in a radius of 2 kilometers from the active crater of Mount Anak Krakatau.

Head of the Geological Agency Rudy Suhendar, Monday (25/3), said, visually Mount Anak Krakatau after the intense eruption period June 2018 - January 9, 2019, still occasionally issued eruptions of white water vapor with a maximum column of smoke reaching up to 1,000 meters above the peak. Observation of tremor energy tends to decrease even though it fluctuates and does not show significant indications of deformation in the body of the volcano.