Authorities warned that the rain had also increased the chance of deadly flows of ash, mud and debris.
In the nearly two weeks since Merapi's first deadly release of ash, many evacuated residents have kept going back to their villages to check on the welfare of their cows, prized possessions that typically constitute rural Indonesians' greatest assets.
The violent mixing of magma and water, resulting in a so-called phreatomagmatic explosion, blew a hole in the overlying sedimentary rock, sending out superheated steam, volcanic ash and deadly gases such as sulfur dioxide.
The Star story, which featured four images from the documentary, described how a "stricken British Airways jumbo jet is engulfed by 'flames' after flying into a deadly cloud of volcanic ash".
In the end, the students playing the government chose to evacuate to the northern tip of the island in an effort to avoid the pyroclastic flows — deadly masses of hot ash, rocks, and gases traveling at the speed of a train — produced by the eruption.
Even as the volcano was making its devastating debut -- raising a deadly cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 20.5 miles, spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing a hundred thousand times the thermal energy released by the Hiroshima bombing -- the eruption was simultaneously giving birth to texts.
A deadly disease that afflicts ash trees has been discovered for the first time in mature forests in the UK, suggesting it is spreading far faster than expected and raising fears of an outbreak as devastating as the impact of Dutch elm disease in the 1970s and 1990s.
During one of these eruptions, there was an immediate deadly impact of widespread ash fallout.
Mount Vesuvius spawned a deadly cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 20.5 mile, spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 Mt/s, ultimately releasing a hundred thousand times the thermal energy released by the Hiroshima bombing.
