[GALLERY] 2010 Merapi Volcano Eruptions

[Meatpie]

Since its initial eruptions on October 25th, Indonesia's Mount Merapi continues to spew hot gases and ash as far as 5,000 meters into the atmosphere, wreaking havoc on surrounding villages and farms, and disrupting air travel - and more than 140 people have been killed by the eruptions over the past two weeks. Hundreds of thousands of residents have been displaced, many of them living in temporary shelters until the Indonesian government reduces the existing 20 km "safe zone", and allows them and their livestock to return. Collected here are recent images from the area near the unpredictable Mount Merapi as it still rumbles and erupts.

 

[stustustugoo]

that ash is terrible
natures wrath

 

[grampawilliam]

This is a great gallery ! I had no idea if the scope of this tragedy. OMG !

 

[Meatpie]

Pretty bad yes, yet this is a small eruption compared to some super eruptions in the past, we can only imagine what hell those must have been for those unlucky few who happened to be in the area when the voclanoes erupted.