Mount Sinabung in Indonesia’s North Sumatra erupts, sending an ash plume roughly 3.5 kilometres above the volcano’s summit, according to multiple outlets. The eruption produces a column of black ash and smoke rising into the air, with one report describing the height as about 11,482 feet.
The volcano is located on the Karo Plateau. Several sources note that Sinabung had been considered dormant for centuries before it began erupting again in 2010. Reporting across outlets centers on the same immediate impact—an ash and smoke column reaching several kilometres high—though specific phrasing varies, including the way the eruption height is expressed in metres or feet.
While sources differ only in wording and measurement formats, they agree on the key points: a new eruption occurs at Mount Sinabung, ash is lofted several kilometres into the atmosphere, and the event marks another episode in a volcano that had long been viewed as dormant before resuming activity in 2010.
