Indonesia volcano erupts, 20 hurt by hot ash
By Salmet Riyadi, Associated Press
October 26, 2010
It was a difficult week for many Indonesians when several natural disasters hit. Indonesia is an archipelago or a large chain of about 17,500 islands located in Southeast Asia in the Pacific and Indian oceans. A volcano named Mount Merapi located in central Java erupted this week. Twenty people were injured by hot ashes from the volcano. Earlier in the week, people were evacuated from the volcano are mostly children and the elderly. However, many grownups decided to stay to take care of their farms and homes at the bottom of the mountain. An even more serious natural disaster occurred at almost the same time. Eight-hundred miles away in Sumatra a strong earthquake struck. It caused a tsunami or giant ocean wave which is reported to have killed over one-hundred people on remote islands so far. These types of natural disasters are common in Indonesia because it is located along the Ring of Fire in the Pacific where fault lines occur.
In conclusion I hop there will be no more natural disasters this week in Indonesia or in any other country.
I had no idea there were so many islands in the archipelago. This was a good summary of the article. How were scientists or scientific tools involved in this ocurrance?
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