"According to the reports we received from the MT Anak Krakatau monitoring post, the mountain did not show an increasing activity. Its danger status remains at Level III," the head of the agency`s center of geological disaster mitigation and vulcanology (PVMBG) said.
Surono said he had already made coordination with the monitoring post and kept monitoring developments online through the PVMBG office.
Until 6.40pm, he said, the activity of the mountain remained like the days before.
Under the current status fishermen or tourists are not allowed to land at the mountain area and must stay away within a three-kilometer radius from the mountain`s crater as it still spewed volcanic materials.
Surono said the mountain`s danger status remained kept at
Level III. He admitted that the location of the quake`s epicenter on Friday afternoon was quite close to the mountain. He appealed to people to remain calm and not to be easily provoked by rumours.He said the recent magnitude 7.6 quake in West Sumatra recently had not also increased the activity of three active volcanoes there, namely Mt Talang, Marapi and Tandikat.
Besides Mt Anak Krakatu other active volcanoes put under alert status are Mt Talang in West Sumatra, Mt Karangetang in Sulawesi and Mt Ibu in West Halmahera. "Hopefully, they have not been affected," he said.
The epicenter of the quake at 4.52pm on Friday in West Java was 6.79 degrees southern latitude and 105 degrees eastern longitude around 42 kilometers northwest of Ujung Kulong. The tremor was felt in Banten, West Java, Jakarta and also Lampung in Sumatra.
http://www.antara.co.id/en/news/1255701160/mt-anak-krakataus-activity-not-affected-by-quake
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