Indonesia's Moont Sinabung and Merapi Erupt again, Forcing Thousands to Evacuate [VIDEO]

Indonesia's two volcanoes, Mount Sinabung and Mount Merapi erupted again, unleashing a cloud of volcanic ash and steam at great height forcing several thousands to evacuate from the slopes and nearby villages.

Due to this volcanic activity, the country's transportation minister immediately issued a warning to all domestic and international flights to stay away from the air routes near the two hot spots.

Earlier this month, Mount Sinabung located in the Karo Plateau of North Sumatra, erupted for the third time in the last three months sending nearly 7,000 meter high volcanic ash forcing people residing on the slopes to evacuate.

But in the beginning of this week, the eruptions got severe and Thursday, it was not just Mount Sinabung that erupted but also the more volatile volcano-Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, spewed volcanic ash nearly 2,000 metre high into the sky that fell over several nearby towns. The 2,460 meter-tall volcano, Mount Sinabung Monday, unleashed volcanic ash to a height of 26,246 feet, the highest eruption in recent days.

Speaking to Xinhua via telephone, Heru Suparwoko, an official at the regional monitoring post for Mount Merapi, said, "Mount Merapi erupted at 04:53 local time today [Monday]. The mount was rumbling and has been spewing the ash the [sic] east since."

These recent continuous eruptions have baffled scientists and the state volcanologists because the volcano has remained dormant for several centuries. Before the 2013 eruptions, it was in 2010 that the volcano erupted. Before 2010 the last known eruption was in the year 1600.

National Disaster Management spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said more than 600 families will be evacuated. They also raised an alert status after Sinabung's second highest eruption at the beginning of this month forced more than 6,000 villagers to evacuate. Back in 2010, when Mount Merapi in Yogyakarta Province erupted, it took the lives of more than 300 residents and forced more than 20,000 villagers to evacuate, reports the  Associated Press.

Indonesia, dubbed as the Pacific Ring of Fire consists of 120 active volcanoes out of which 80 percent of the volcanoes fall along the Ring of fire i.e. arc of volcanoes and fault lines that encircle the Pacific Basin.