<p class="title">Indonesia's Mount Merapi has shot a towering plume of ash about 6 kilometres high in an eruption authority said lasted 2 minutes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The National Disaster Mitigation Agency said today the volcano's alert status, raised last month from the lowest level, is unchanged and a 3-kilometre no-go zone around the crater remains in force.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It said the eruption at 8.20 a.m. caused no panic and nearby Adi Sucipto Yogyakarta International Airport is still open to flights.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The mountain is about 30 kilometres from the centre of Yogyakarta city on the densely populated island of Java.</p>.<p class="bodytext">About a quarter million people live within a 10-kilometre radius of the volcano. Merapi's last major eruption in 2010 killed 347 people.</p>
<p class="title">Indonesia's Mount Merapi has shot a towering plume of ash about 6 kilometres high in an eruption authority said lasted 2 minutes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The National Disaster Mitigation Agency said today the volcano's alert status, raised last month from the lowest level, is unchanged and a 3-kilometre no-go zone around the crater remains in force.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It said the eruption at 8.20 a.m. caused no panic and nearby Adi Sucipto Yogyakarta International Airport is still open to flights.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The mountain is about 30 kilometres from the centre of Yogyakarta city on the densely populated island of Java.</p>.<p class="bodytext">About a quarter million people live within a 10-kilometre radius of the volcano. Merapi's last major eruption in 2010 killed 347 people.</p>