The Mount Agung time-lapse from The Guardian shows a huge ash cloud pour out of the volcano as the state of emergency in Bali is extended to at least December 10.
The Bali volcano is in a “critical phase” as the officials at the Disaster Mitigation Agency warn a second and more destructive eruption is “imminent”.
Volcanologist Dr Janine Krippner has warned locals “won’t be able to outrun” lava spewing from the summit of Bali’s largest volcano.
Speaking to news.com.au, she said the activity inside the volcano is similar to “shaking up a bottle of Coke and then taking the lid off.”
She said: “This is an eruption, this is 100 per cent an eruption.
“Lava is coming out of the volcano, there’s definitely enough to cause trouble. This can get much worse, you can’t outrun this.”
Mount Agung’s danger zone means up to 100,000 people are being forced evacuate the area around the crater but only 43,000 people have followed the order.
Farmers working on the land surrounding Mount Agung believe they must stay in the hazard zone despite requests from the government to leave.
Farmer Wayan Sudi told Al Jazeera: “It’s very difficult to evacuate our cattle, especially because there is no food for our cows down there.
“This time of year it’s hard to find food anywhere. We don’t have money to buy it for them.”
Financial pressures may force some residents to go home before the Mount Agung danger zone has ceased.
About 1,1000 members of Indonesia’s army are on standby to assist the evacuation of locals living in Mount Agung’s danger zone, according to Antara News.
The last major eruption from Mount Agung was in 1963, killing approximately over a thousand people who lived in the communities surrounding the Bali volcano.