The status of Mount Bromo Not Sure

SURABAYA - MICOM: Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) states can not decide decline alert status of Mount Bromo, although the current intensity of the eruption on the mountain down.

Head of Geological Hazard Mitigation Suantika From PVMBG Gede said it could not determine when the status of Mount Bromo is lowered, although since Tuesday (30/11) to Wednesday (1 / 12) the intensity of the eruption of Mount Bromo is beginning to show a decrease. "We have not been able to determine that," Gede said when contacted via cell phone.


However, he continued, the barometer which is used as reference in lowering the status of the mountain is where the mountain is the amplitude of seismic tremor reached 0.1 millimeters. "While the volcanic earthquake does not appear or zero millimeters. Or was there an earthquake there is only one time in a month," he said.

He said the character of Mount Bromo which has a height of 2329 meters above sea level is different from other volcanoes in Indonesia as Mount Merapi in the border area of Yogyakarta and Central Java which has issued the lava.

"The potential issue remains incandescent lava, but the measure may differ from Merapi," he said. (Ant/OL-01)