Important Takeaways:
- Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency said Monday that at least 10 people have died as a series of volcanic eruptions widens on the remote island of Flores.
- The eruption at Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki just after midnight on Monday spewed thick, brownish ash as high as 2,000 meters into the air and hot ashes hit a nearby village, burning down several houses, including a convent of Catholic nuns, said Firman Yosef, an official at the Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki monitoring post.
- Rescuers were still searching for more bodies buried under collapsed houses, said Abdul Muhari, the National Disaster Management Agency’s spokesperson. Muhari said all the bodies, including that of a child, were found within a four-kilometer radius of the crater.
- Authorities also raised the danger level and widened the danger zone for Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki on Monday, following a series of eruptions that began last week.
- More than 10,000 affected in nearby villages
- “The eruptions that occurred since Friday were due to the accumulation of hidden energy,” Wafid said.
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Important Takeaways:
- A volcano on the remote Indonesian island of Halmahera has spectacularly erupted, spewing a grey ash cloud into the sky, causing the evacuation of people from seven nearby villages, authorities said on May 19.
- Mount Ibu erupted on the evening of May 18, sending ash 4km high, as streaks of purple lightning flashed around its crater, according to information and images shared by Indonesia’s volcanology agency.
- The agency did not provide any information about how many people had been moved, but authorities have recommended that a 7km radius be cleared.
- Ibu’s activities follow a series of eruptions of different volcanoes in Indonesia, which sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire” and has 127 active volcanoes.
- Flash floods and cold lava flow from Mount Marapi, one of the most active in West Sumatra province
- In recent weeks, North Sulawesi’s Ruang volcano has also erupted, spewing incandescent lava.
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Important Takeaways:
- Terrifying video shows volcano sending hot ash thousands of feet in air over Indonesian villages
- Hot ash rained down on villages southeast of Mount Merapi after several eruptions just in the last month.
- A resident captured a massive volcanic ash cloud shooting 7,800 feet into the air for almost four minutes on Sunday afternoon, according to the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency.
- The photographer was upwind of the prevailing winds and escaped the falling hot ash. Officials have reported no fatalities so far.
- There were four separate lava flows that traveled a little more than a mile down the slope, according to an Indonesian news agency.
- The ash mixed with heavy rain and fog and soaked two villages with muddy, gritty rain.
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Important Takeaways:
- Magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Kepulauan Talaud
- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 has been registered in the area of the Talaud Islands in Indonesia, the European Mediterranean Seismological Center reported.
- The quake’s epicenter was located 171 kilometers southeast of the Philippine city of General Santos, home to about 679,000 people. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 91 kilometers.
- It did not trigger a tsunami alert, according to the US Tsunami Warning System and the Philippine seismological agency.” By the grace of God it was not that strong in our province,” said Chief Master Sergeant Ian Roy Balandan of the Sarangani provincial police office on Mindanao. Balandan told AFP there had been no reports of casualties or damage to infrastructure or houses. “It was really mild. People hardly felt it,” he said.
- This article was published in thejakartapost.com with the title “Magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Kepulauan Talaud.”
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Important Takeaways:
- Indonesia’s Marapi volcano erupts again, sending toxic ash and smoke 10,000 feet into the air
- Indonesia’s Marapi volcano erupted and sent more ash and toxic smoke high into the atmosphere on Tuesday, one week after the mountain came to life and exploded, killing at least 23 climbers.
- The eruption was relatively minor and nowhere near the intensity that was observed during last week’s eruption.
- The volcano remains at the second-highest alert level, which is the same as it was before last Sunday’s initial eruption.
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Luke 21:11 There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Important Takeaways:
- Indonesian Health Ministry Warns of Marburg Virus
- The Indonesian Government issued a circular on precautions for Marburg virus disease. Local governments, health service facilities, Port Health Office, health human resources, and related stakeholders are asked to be vigilant against the deadly virus.
- Based on case reports received by WHO, there were nine deaths and 16 suspected cases reported in Kie Ntem Province.
- Marburg is transmitted through body fluids directly from bats/primates.
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Revelations 18:9-11 “The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning, 10 standing at a distance for fear of her torment, saying, ‘Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come.’ 11 “And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore
Important Takeaways:
- Top Asian economy urges citizens to abandon Western payment systems
- The leader of Indonesia says the country must reduce its dependence on foreign payment systems, to negate potentially disastrous economic consequences should the country ever find itself in the crosshairs of Western sanctions.
- “Be very careful. We must remember the sanctions imposed by the US on Russia. Visa and Mastercard could be a problem,” Widodo said on Wednesday at a gathering that promoted the use of Indonesian-made products and services.
- The president urged the public sector to adopt domestic systems, stressing that eventually “everyone should be able to use” locally-issued bank cards so that “we can be independent.”
- “If we use our own platforms, and everybody is using them, from ministries and local administrations to municipal governments, then we can be more secure,” Widodo said
- However, in order to compete with Visa and Mastercard, any domestic alternative must be accepted internationally, experts cited by the Post said
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- Asian countries push back on China demand
- Beijing is demanding that Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan surrender their territorial rights to the South China Sea. But all have rejected its claim of “historical” ownership of the 3.5 million square kilometer waterway.
- Now escalating military pressure from China is forcing the traditionally non-aligned South East Asian states to seek mutual and international support.
- “The situation in the South China Sea is far from stable,” Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) analyst Greg Poling says.
- “Chinese vessels engaged in dangerous and escalatory encounters with those of other states regularly throughout 2022.”
- Now Jakarta has put Beijing in a position where it must either put up or shut up.
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regional bloc produced a statement stating China’s artificial island fortresses and aggressive behavior at sea, “have eroded trust and confidence, increased tensions and may undermine peace, security and stability in the region”.
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Micah 1:4 And the mountains will melt under him, and the valleys will split open, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.
Important Takeaways:
- Eruption of Mount Semeru, Indonesia’s tallest volcano, prompts evacuations for thousands living downslope
- Evacuations were announced Sunday as the 12,060-foot volcano, located in East Java in Indonesia, about 300 miles southeast of the capital Jakarta, began to spew lava and ash into the densely populated island
- Thick ash was blasted more than 4,000 feet into the air while lava flowed down the slopes toward the Besuk Kobokan River, about 8 miles from the crater, the country’s National Disaster Management Agency announced.
- Prior to Sunday, Mount Semeru erupted from Nov. 23 to Nov. 29, with daily explosions at the summit that sent ash plumes nearly 3,000 feet into the sky, according to the Global Volcanism Program at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of Natural History.
- The last major eruption occurred in December 2021, which killed 51 people in nearby villages, according to the AP.
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Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Dozens Dead In Indonesia Quake
- The 5.6-magnitude temblor struck early Monday afternoon in Cinajur, West Java, only around 50 miles southeast of the country’s highly populated capital of Jakarta.
- The earthquake collapsed buildings in Cianjur and triggered landslides.
- Hundreds of people are injured and dozens more were killed.
- A school and a hospital were among the buildings damaged in Cinajur
- At least 56 people were killed there and 700 others were injured. Those numbers could rise as the extent of the damage becomes clearer.
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