Why Not Stop Shot of Toxic Gas

VIVAnews-Child Mount Krakatau continues to move. Belly of the mountain continues spewing poisonous gas.
"Shot of gas continues to occur because of magma inside the volcano continues to ride out abdomen. Magma is pushing poison gas shot out," the head of Volcano Observation Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Agus Budianto, to VIVAnews.com, in Jakarta, Wednesday, November 3, 2010.
When is it going to stop bursts are still difficult to predict, because the magma chamber is still active.
In addition to its encouragement of magma, the blast of poison gas were also happen because of volcanic earthquakes also increased.
Gas released, it is clear Budianto, signaling would occur from the volcano eruption phase. "It's a natural thing in an activity Volcanoes like Mount Anak Krakatau," he added.
Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) already prohibits residents, especially fishermen and tourists closer to a radius of 2 kilometers. "Gas is dangerous and toxic. In addition, the status of Mount Krakatoa's Child became alert or level II," he said.
In an interview with the previous VIVAnews, Agus said that sea water temperatures around Anak Krakatau increased. That's because the number of hot material from Anak Krakatau that fell into the sea.
Based on data in the Post Monitor Mount Anak Krakatau, Cinangka, Serang District. Recorded in one day yesterday has happened six times in the category of volcanic earthquake, 117 times the shallow volcanic earthquake, 223 times the eruption, 157 times the blast, and 219 times the tremor. "In total 722 in a day occur seismic activity, and occur every 5 minutes or so," he said.

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