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
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