Bali Volcano update: Mount Sinabung spews MOLTEN LAVA as Mount Agung eruption fears grow

Photographs show lava pouring out of Mount Sinabung’s crater and streaming down the slopes of the volcano. 

Mount Sinabung has erupted regularly since 2010 and was pictured spewing thick clouds of volcanic ash hundreds of metres into the air earlier this week. 

Located in the Karo regency in Indonesia, Sinabung is about 1,865 miles about away from Bali’s largest volcano Mount Agung, which has been threatening to erupt for four weeks.

Both volcanoes sit on the ominously named Pacific Ring of Fire, which is the most active earthquake belt in the world and home to about 450 volcanoes. 

Locals living near Sinabung told to stay at least 7 km (4.3 miles) away from the volcano, after 10 people were killed by an eruption earlier this year.

In Bali, hundreds of earthquakes are rocking Mount Agung every day and experts have warned that an eruption could occur at any time. 

Yesterday, the was hit by 1,052 earthquakes, according to the island’s Geological Agency.

Of these, 245 were shallow earthquakes, 676 were deeper quakes and 102 were local tectonic tremors. Experts also recorded four more dangerous non-harmonic tremors.

Since the volcano alert was raised to its maximum level on September 22, about 180,000 Balinese locals have abandoned their homes to escape the threat of eruption, according to Bali governor Made Mangku Pastika.

Official estimates suggest that just shy of 150,000 people have moved to evacuation camps, with another 30,000 staying with friends or family on the island. 

Bali residents have been living under a state of emergency since September 29. 

The alert was due to be lifted on October 12, though this date was extended to October 16 and then again to October 26.

Mount Agung has not erupted since 1963, when a series of explosions killed more than 1,100 people and injured about 300 more.

Mr Pastika believes Bali’s swift evacuation process this time around means there will be no deaths if Agung erupts again. 

“If something happened, even if an eruption happened today, I guarantee there will be no victims,” he said last week.