Bali's Gunung Agung Alert Level Raised

Agung update in the danger area , around 200,000 evacuated

A. Titik pengungsian Singaraja
1. Pengungsi = 36.900
2. Petugas. = 1846
Jml. = 38.746 org.

B. Titik pengungsian Abang
1. Pengungsi. = 43.968
2. Petugas. = 2.199
Jml = 46.167 org

C Titik pengungsian Manggis
1. Pengungsi. = 50.830
2. Petugas. = 3.042
Jml = 63.872 org

D. Titik Pengungsian Klk
1. Pengungsi. = 42.381
2. Petugas. = 2.119
Jml = 44.500.

*Jml seluruhnya 193.285 org.*
 
For some excellent on the ground reporting and photos, you can read these blog posts by freelance photographer and long time Bali resident Rio Helmi:

Today was the second day since I decided to take an on-the-ground look at Mt Agung’s volcanic activity. There had been plenty of conflicting reports, with social media playing it’s usual inflationary role. “The mountain was aglow last night volcanic flames”; “Smoke has been billowing out of the crater for days now”; “Hundreds of quakes“; “The ground in Tirta Gangga has been like jelly”; “The army is guarding the trails up to the peak at Pura Pasar Agung” etc. etc.. Somewhere I even saw a headline screaming “Bali’s volcano erupts for the first time in 50 years” with a picture of the eruption a while back of the volcano on Lombok. Nothing like the facts with your morning coffee.
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News from Under the Volcano

Wait, what happened to my own to-do list? The volcano has taken over our lives here in Bali. I’m out the door from Ubud at 4.30am; my bike’s fog lights blast me thru Kintamani mist to Suter where I was hoping to catch a shot of Agung, but the weather is not friendly. On to Besakih where at 5:10 everything is dead as a door nail. I banged on the door of the police post and even that door nail didn’t budge. A little voice in my head says “Mr Helmi you are well within the red zone”. That and the nasty barking of posturing dogs gets me on my way to Rendang, down the valley and up the other side. Eerie, ghost town vibe, and a light misty sprinkle of rain hastens me until I see bike lights. It’s young men on their way back to their fields coming from Rendang.
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News From Under the Volcano – part 2
 
Agung update evacuations , Amed , Tulamben , Amlapura and surrounding areas 2 days ago, by a midnight knock on the door.
scary times .
 
On the bright side, the response to the evacuations have been absolutely massive and heartwarming.

Two WA groups I am in are organizing donations and volunteers, one of them for multiple efforts.

A friend of ours who has a property in Karangasem has taken in 200 (!) people, and a local Rotary club has collected Rp 15 jt overnight to help them, with more on the way.

Practically every banjar in Bali has taken in people, unofficial evacuees who came to live with relatives, including my banjar which has as of last count 12 evacuees.

In many ways, Bali is better prepared for this than many other areas in Indonesia. It already has probably hundreds of NGOs on the ground, and Bali being an tourism spot makes for sexy headlines, and that helps.

Here are some photos from various spots in Bali:

Buleleng
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Sukawati

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Well people seem well prepared, let's hope all goes well and no deaths are reported, volcanos seem very unpredictable, so we hope it isn't as bad as people are expecting
 
Anglian said:
Well people seem well prepared, let's hope all goes well and no deaths are reported, volcanos seem very unpredictable, so we hope it isn't as bad as people are expecting
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& let's hope the local mafia show their goodwill, they should have been saving for this eventuation for possibly 30 years plus now
 
scouser59 said:
Agung update evacuations , Amed , Tulamben , Amlapura and surrounding areas 2 days ago, by a midnight knock on the door.
scary times .
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According to local friends from Amed, Amed has not been evacuated but the opposite, taking and welcome a lot people from the evacuated zones in their houses, local banjars and wantilans.
Tulamben yes
 
Strange ! the information I got today was from a danish tourist and her Indonesian boyfriend whom were evacuated from their hotel in Amed . They told me quite scary stories of fairly constant quakes of variable intensity , even on the beach !
 
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Nice to see the civic mindedness, but given that the last eruption of Agung lasted one year, I hope all are ready to potentially settle in for the long haul.
 
scouser59 said:
Strange ! the information I got today was from a danish tourist and her Indonesian boyfriend whom were evacuated from their hotel in Amed . They told me quite scary stories of fairly constant quakes of variable intensity , even on the beach !
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Amed should be safe from the immediate effects of volcano, as it is not in the danger zone as of right now. However, in the event of eruption, Amed could be cut off from land routes. Amed is to the right of this map (not shown).
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As for earthquakes, they are constant now for the past couple of days in the surrounding area, some felt as far as Manggis in the south. When the thing erupts though, I'm pretty sure the whole island will know without any news reports.
 
I can't in good conscience wish Pura Besakih to be affected, but I would be incredibly delighted to see the mafia thugs that run the place put out of business for the foreseeable future.
 
dafluff said:
I don't know much about volcanoes, so maybe someone else knows: Is there a chance that it will just calm down? Or is an eruption at this point just a matter of time? The alert went from 1 to 3 in a matter of days.
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Pretty sure it's a matter of time, though there have been occasions when the magma moving to the surface cools enough to slow things down.

This type of volcano usually exolodes violently. However, comparisions with Krakatoa are incorrect, as that volcano exploded and then collapsed into the ocean (think instant steam) which led to the cataclysmic result.
 
My husband was supposed to go to Bali on Sunday afternoon. Saturday night we were meeting new people at a party when he suddenly vanished from the crowd. I found him in a quiet corner urgently talking/texting. It turns out the event he was going to (a regional workshop with people from all over SE Asia) was being canceled due to fears over Agung erupting, and they frantically had to try to reach everyone before anyone got on a plane. Luckily, they managed to stop everyone.

This will be a problem if it takes months for Agung to erupt. People won't stay evacuated, and the economy will be hurt when people are fearful of flying in. If it's gonna blow, I hope it does it SOON. Or else it quiets down quickly.
 
Well most foreign Australian, UK embassies have given a warning not to travel to Bali, this will have a tremendous impact on Bali's tourist industry,let's hope it blows sooner to lessen the finicial impact it will have, flights grounded, hotels closed, etc.
 
Anglian said:
Well most foreign Australian, UK embassies have given a warning not to travel to Bali, this will have a tremendous impact on Bali's tourist industry,let's hope it blows sooner to lessen the finicial impact it will have, flights grounded, hotels closed, etc.
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yap , I can imagine it will be a quite dramatic downturn, thailand and others are rubbing their hands
 
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