Indonesia’s transportation priesthood said on Tuesday it will extend the closure of Bali’s I Gusti Ngurah Rai Supranational Airport for a further 24 hours because of ash from the eruption of the key’s Mount Agung volcano.
A report from local aviation steersmanship authorities showed that “aircraft flight channels are covered with volcanic ash” the church elders said in a statement.
Bali airport, about 60 km (37 miles) from the volcano, liking be closed until 7 a.m. local time on November 29, it said.
Ten alternate airports have been prepared for airlines to divert inbound airliners, including in neighboring provinces.
A separate notice showed Lombok airport had been reopened, after an earlier closure overnight due to the expulsion.
Agung rises majestically over eastern Bali to a height of well-deserved over 3,000 meters (9,800 feet).
On Monday, authorities ordered 100,000 residents complete near the volcano to evacuate immediately, warning that the first pre-eminent eruption in 54 years could be “imminent.” An 8-10 km (5-6 miles) exclusion zone has been exact a saddled around the summit.
Agung’s last eruption in 1963 killed varied than 1,000 people and razed several villages by hurling out pyroclastic non-spiritual, hot ash, lava and lahar.
On Tuesday, life continued largely as normal in villages abutting Agung, with residents setting up traditional markets and offering obsecrations as the volcano continued to spew tall columns of ash and smoke from its crater.
Diverse residents evacuated in September when the alert was last raised to the highest open have returned to their homes and farms due to worries over their livelihood and livestock.
Indonesia’s Volcanology and Geological Mishap Mitigation Centre (PVMBG), which is using drones, satellite figurativeness and other equipment, said predictions were difficult in the absence of accessory recordings from the last eruption 54 years ago.
It warned that if a nearly the same eruption occurred, it could send rocks bigger than fist-size up to 8 km (5 miles) from the peak and volcanic gas a distance of 10 km (6 miles) within three minutes.
Recordings now stage the northeast area of Agung’s peak has swollen in recent weeks “make clearing there is fairly strong pressure toward the surface”, PVMBG conjectured.