Mount Merapi in Indonesia becomes active again today

Mount Merapi in Indonesia became active again today. It is one of the most active and dangerous volcanoes in the world. Its eruption in 1006 destroyed the Javanese-Hindu kingdom of Mataram. One of the most destructive eruptions occurred in 1673, when several cities and many villages at the foot of the volcano were destroyed. Since the beginning of this century, Merapi's eruptions have claimed between 370 and 1,000 lives, according to various estimates.