Some 200,000 people from 36 villages were evacuated on Friday after Mount Kelud in the densely populated Java erupted spectacularly. Kelud, which stands 1,731 meters high, is one of the most dangerous volcanoes on the island, and has claimed more than 15,000 lives since 1500, including around 10,000 deaths in a massive 1568 eruption. It is one of some 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia, which sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire. Its eruption comes days after Mount Sinabung on western Sumatra island, unleashed an enormous eruption, leaving at least 16 people dead.
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