Washington: The eruption of Mount Merapi in Magelang, Central Java, recorded satellites of United States Space Agency (NASA). Satellite images that illustrate the extent of territory covered in dust and damaged a result of hot clouds.

The recording was obtained on November 5, 2010. On the tape, looked incandescent lava and hot clouds swept area Kaliurang, Yogyakarta. Lava was seen flowing into the region Cangkringan.

That disaster was recorded Ikonos satellite. Satellite images were then compared the area around Ground, before and after the eruption of Merapi. Pictures taken before the eruption on July 7, 2008.

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Mount the most active in the world, Merapi, currently being stretched. Community anxiously waiting for, whether it will erupt and send the next catastrophe. Moreover, the Centre for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVG) has improved the status of Merapi to be Watch out, starting from Monday, October 25, 2010.

History records, since 1548, Merapi has erupted 68 times - with small eruptions occur every 2-3 years, and the larger about 10-15 years. Massive eruption had occurred among others in 1006, 1786, 1822, 1872, and 1930.

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Before the ash from Merapi Mounth like a petruk

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MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia – Searing gas avalanched down an Indonesian volcano with a thunderous roar, torching houses and trees and incinerating villagers as they fled Mount Merapi's worst eruption in a century. Scores of bodies found Friday raised the death toll to 122.

The injured — with clothes, blankets and even mattresses fused to their skin by the 1,400 degree Fahrenheit (750 degree Celsius) heat — were carried away on stretchers following the first big explosion just before midnight.

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       Mt. Anak Krakatau (JP)

Mount Anak Krakatau continued on Sunday its frenzied expulsion of volcanic material, including hot rocks, sand and dust shrouded in toxic fumes — seven times more frequently than just a week earlier.
“Usually Mt. Anak Krakatau experiences an average of 90 to 100 small scale eruptions a day. Now, the number of eruptions can reach 700 a day,” Andi Suhardi, head of the Mt. Anak Krakatau observation post in Hargo Pancuran village, said on Monday.
Mt. Anak Krakatau is a volcano located near Krakatau Island between Sumatra and Java.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space is about to get its first humanoid from planet Earth. Robonaut 2 — affectionately known as R2 — is hitching a one-way ride to the International Space Station this week aboard the final flight of space shuttle Discovery.

It's the first humanoid robot ever bound for space, a $2.5 million mechanical and electrical marvel that NASA hopes one day will assist flesh-and-bone astronauts in orbit.

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