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Islands in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi region are on alert for a #tsunami as volcano eruptions sent lava spewing and a mile-high ash cloud forms above Mount Ruang.
On Wednesday, authorities ordered thousands of people to evacuate and the #volcano alert was raised to the country’s highest level after five large eruptions were recorded in one day, Indonesia’s Centre for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation said.
The volcanic activity, which began late on Tuesday night and followed two earthquakes in the region, sparked fears of a repeat of the 1871 disaster when hundreds of people died in a tsunami in the days after Mount Ruang erupted.
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