Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano erupted several times on Wednesday Nov 3rd while an earthquake struck off of the coast of Papua, far east of the volcano. The ash sent by the volcano forced thousands to evacuate and seek shelter. The Mount's lava and ash have killed at least 39 people since it began erupting on October 26, an additional 74 have been injured and more than 71,000 have been evacuated. Mount Merapi is famously unpredictable; an eruption killed 2 people in 2006, 60 people n 1994 and 1,300 in 1930. The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.1 off the eastern Indonesian coast and it did not prompt tsunami warnings from Indonesia's Bureau of Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics.
Link to site: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/03/indonesia.earthquake/index.html?hpt=T2
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