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
Alpide belt by ongoing plate tectonics such as the Alpine orogeny. The belt is the result of Mesozoic-to-Cenozoic-to-recent closure of the Tethys Ocean and process of collision between the northward-moving African, Arabian and Indian plates with the Eurasian plate. Indonesia lies between the Pacific Ring of Fire along the northeastern islands adjacent to and including New Guinea and the Alpide belt along the south and west from Sumatra, Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Flores, and Timor). The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake just off the coast of Sumatra was located within the Alpide belt. Alpide belt The Alpide belt or Alpine-Himalayan