Overview

• On June 17 at 5:35 p.m. local time, the volcano unleashed a mushroom-shaped ash column reaching 10,000 meters, with Indonesia’s Geology Agency recording 50 seismic events in two hours
• The National Disaster Management Agency raised the alert to level 4 and expanded the exclusion zone to 8 kilometers from the crater
• Denpasar’s Ngurah Rai and Flores’s Fransiskus Xaverius Seda airports have canceled over 30 flights, affecting carriers such as Jetstar, Virgin Australia, Air India, Singapore Airlines and Air New Zealand
• Residents from multiple villages within and beyond the danger zone have been evacuated amid warnings of ashfall hazards and potential lahar floods during heavy rains
• This eruption follows a deadly November 2024 event that killed nine people and underscores Indonesia’s ongoing volcanic risks along the Pacific Ring of Fire