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Mount Ruang seen erupting from Tagulandang island in Sitaro, North Sulawesi, on Tuesday.
Ruang’s eruption prompted authorities to order an evacuation and forced a nearby airport to close.
The remote Indonesian volcano sent a tower of ash spewing into the sky on April 19
Mount Ruang
Ruang is the southernmost stratovolcano in the Sangihe Islands arc, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Mount Ruang is a stratovolcano prone to regular volcanic activity.
Stratovolcanoes are conical and relatively steep-sided due to the formation of viscous, sticky lava that does not flow easily.
Indonesia, a vast archipelago nation which experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity due to its position on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”.
The Ring of Fire, also referred to as the Circum-Pacific Belt is a string of hundreds of volcanoes and earthquake-sites which runs along the Pacific Ocean - The Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of numerous tectonic plates, including the Eurasian, North American, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Caribbean, Nazca, Antarctic, Indian, Australian, Philippine, and other smaller plates, which all encircle the large Pacific Plate.
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