Mount Semeru erupted in Indonesia.

The eruption of the volcano Semeru occurred on the island of Java in Indonesia on Sunday early in the morning.

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“The Indonesian volcano Semeru on the island of Java began erupting early Sunday morning, sending a plume of ash 1.5 km high into the air,”  the National Disaster Management Authority (BNPB) reported

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The department urged local residents not to carry out any activity within a radius of 5 kilometers from the center of the eruption, and also not to approach rivers closer than 500 meters due to possible lava flows.

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Authorities later upgraded the issued warning to the highest level. The evacuation of people living near the volcano in the province of East Java has begun.

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Indonesia often suffers from earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis due to its location on the “Ring of Fire”. This is a strip of volcanoes and tectonic faults 40 thousand kilometers long, which encircles the Pacific Ocean. It is in the “Ring of Fire” that almost 90% of the approximately one and a half thousand known volcanoes of the planet are located. 90% of all earthquakes on Earth occur there.