Question: Mount Merapi which got erupted recently is located in which country?
(a) Indonesia
(b) Phillipines
(c) Italy
(d) Colombia
Answer: (a)
Related facts:
- On 21 June 2020,Indonesia’s most active volcano, Mount Merapi has erupted fuming ash and smoke more than three miles into the sky.
- Mount Merapi is an active stratovolcano located on the border between Central Java and Yogyakarta provinces, Indonesia.
- A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava, tephra, pumice and ash.
- Merapi is the most active volcano in Indonesia and has erupted regularly since 1548.
- Its last major eruption in 2010 killed 347 people.
Volcano:
- A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
- Volcanoes are classified into three distinct groups: dormant, extinct and active.
- Dormant volcanoes are those who haven’t erupted in a long time, but they could again.Extinct volcanoes have erupted for thousands of years and might be dead.
- Active volcanoes, on the other hand,are those currently erupting or showing signs of unrest. Example, Stromboli in Italy known as the “Lighthouse of the Mediterranean”.
By-Amar Mani Upadhyay