Thar she blows!
An Indonesian volcano that slept for four centuries before rumbling back to life in 2010 has blown its top — spewing pillars of ash and smoke four miles in the air and sparking fears of a bigger cataclysm.
Evacuations of villagers kept the death toll at zero in Thursday’s eruption of Mount Sinabung — the smoldering heart of a spectacular national park in Indonesia’s rugged Karo region.
But officials and geologists fear the mountain is becoming more active — and angry.
After an eruption three years ago killed two people, Mount Sinabung lay dormant until this past September, when a blowup forced a mass evacuation of thousands of people living within a two-mile radius.
It popped off again in October, and since Nov. 5, the volcano has erupted with terrifying regularity.
“Mount Sinabung’s eruptions have become even worse as the volcanic ash has reached villages outside the [two-mile] danger zone,” a regional government spokesman, Jhonson Tarigan, told The Jakarta Post this week.