- Indonesia’s Mount Merapi continued to erupt, forcing authorities to halt tourism and mining activities on the slopes of the country’s most active volcano.
- The volcano on the densely populated island of Java unleashed clouds of hot ash and fast-moving pyroclastic flows.
- It was Mount Merapi’s biggest lava flow since authorities raised its danger level in November 2020. The volcano is near Yogyakarta, an ancient city, which is also a centre of Javanese culture and a seat of royal dynasties going back centuries.