Mount Merapi smoke up to 2,000 meters high, one of its first major phreatic eruptions after the 2010 eruption. Researchers said that this eruption occurred due to combined effect of hot volcanic gases and abundant rainfall. The last eruption was so far May 11, 2018 The name "Merapi" could be loosely translated as the Mountain of Fire. The etymology of the name came from "Meru-Api"; from the Javanese combined words; "Meru" means "mountain", refer to mythical mountain of Gods in Hinduism, and "api" means "fire". Merapi is the youngest in a group of volcanoes in southern Java. It is situated at a
Mount Merapi to be numerous, and the next day CVGHM raised the Alert Level to 2 (on a scale of 1–4). Lava from Mount Merapi in Central Java began flowing down the Gendol River on 23–24 October signalling the likelihood of an imminent eruption. On 25 October 2010, the Indonesian government raised the alert for Mount Merapi to its highest level (4) and warned villagers in threatened areas to move to safer ground. People living within a zone were told to evacuate. The evacuation orders affected at least 19,000 people; however, the number that complied at the time remained unclear to authorities.