Mount Soputan in North Sulawesi erupted on Sunday morning at around 6:03 a.m. local time, sending searing gas 6,000 meters into the air, but officials said it posed no danger yet. There were no reports of casualties as of 8:00 a.m. and the spokesman of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said there was so far no need to order an evacuation. Read more
Mount Soputan in North Sulawesi province erupted about 6am on Sunday (8am AEST) but people living in the sparsely populated area have not been evacuated, Iing Kusnadi, a scientist at the volcano's monitoring post said. Read more
The volcanic 5,800-foot Mount Soputan erupted in central Indonesia on Thursday, sending plumes of smoke and ash 5,000 feet into the air and covering the nearby villages in soot. Residents living near the crater of Mount Soputan, located on Sulawesi island, had been evacuated before the blast and there were no immediate reports of injuries or serious damage. Mount Soputan is 1,350 miles northeast of the capital, Jakarta, and regularly erupts ash and smoke.