Mount Sinabung eruption 🌋 This violent eruption spewed ash up to 7500 meters into the air. Villages were coasted in ash, and residents were given facemaks by the government and advised to stay indoors to avoid breathing in dangerous particles. Thankfully, no injuries or fatalities were caused by the eruption. Mount Sinabung is a Pleistocene-to-Holocene stratovolcano of andesite and dacite in the Karo plateau of Karo Regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia, 40 kilometres from the Lake Toba supervolcan