A volcano in Indonesia exploded in impressive fashion this 7 days, sending a tower of ash flying three miles high … leaving surrounding villages and communities shrouded in darkness.

Mount Sinabung erupted Monday on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, sending a enormous column of volcanic ash spewing hundreds of ft into the sky — 16,400 to be actual. Thankfully, no a person was killed or seriously hurt from the explosion, but there were being warnings of lava flows.

People were recommended to remain at least three miles away from the crater’s mouth, wherever lava could actually hijack the landscape. And, while the speedy region around the volcano has been roped off for decades, people today were however included in ash underneath.

The AP reviews up to 2 inches of ash collected in some of the abandoned villages together the volcano’s slopes. Persons additional out carried on like regular, seemingly — besides for the reality they experienced to transform on their automobile headlights to see as a result of the darkness.

Mount Sinabung had been dormant for centuries in advance of first erupting yet again in 2010 … and given that then, it is really been active and knowledgeable explosions a handful of moments in the several years to adhere to. The 2010 eruption killed two, 16 far more ended up killed in 2014 and 7 died in 2016.