Clouds Heat 65 Kilometers Hoaxx

Head of Balai Penyelidikan dan Pengembangan Teknologi Kegunungapian (BPPTK) Yogyakarta Subandrio asserted incorrectly will happen hot clouds as far as 65 kilometers from the summit of Mount Merapi. According to him, it only issues and gossip only.

"People were asked to remain calm, do not panic, because in history of Merapi unprecedented heat clouds glide that far," he said, in Yogyakarta on Sunday (07/11/2010). Previously circulated information via the Internet that Mount Merapi would issue a heat clouds as far as 65 kilometers as reported in "SILET" infotainment show on RCTI.

"People do not have affected the issue, and heat clouds glide may not exceed a distance of up to a predetermined safe zone that is beyond 20 kilometers," he said. Therefore, he said, people should remain calm, and follow the plea competent institution such as the Center of Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Agency, Geological and (BPPTK).

Subandrio said the hot clouds are still there. Gendol times even at this time is filled with pyroclastic deposits, because the hot clouds occurred continuously since the eruption on October 26, 2010. Gendol time now is full with hot clouds of sediment, and if it still continues to grow with the same volume, so if there is hot clouds leading to the river could luncurnya distance away. Although heat can clouds glide away, said Subandrio not be more than 20 kilometers.

"However, to watch out, hot clouds at Merapi, this happens continuously, and every time luncurannya can change direction," he said. So, he said, if there are citizens into unsafe zone, it is very risky. "Therefore, so citizens do not often see cattle are still in the unsafe zone, the cow should be taken down or evacuated, or how to better sell," he said.