A lot of residents of the Anyer tourist resort became scared by the sound of Mount Anak Krakatau's eruptions on Friday night and early Saturday, a local resident said. "The eruptions were heard since 10 PM on Friday. The eruptions were still going on until early Saturday," Eva Marbun who lived in Anyer tourist resort area, Serang district, said on Saturday. The volcano erupted for five times from Friday night to early Saturday. Despite the nature of the volcano, its eruptions still frightened certain people, ANTARA quoted Marbun as saying. A senior geologist recently said that the current activity of Mount Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait would not trigger a tsunami. "Mount Anak Krakatau is a young Stromboli island which will keep erupting but not strong enough to trigger a tsunami," M Suchyar, head of the energy and mineral resources ministry's geological agency said. He said the danger status of the mountain had been raised to a level above normal and the Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center had recommended a ban on visits to the mountain. He said the mountain located in the Sunda Strait would continue to be active as a young volcano. "Anak Krakatau's eruption is in the active crater 300 meters above sea level. It will not cause a tsunami. People must not be provoked by such baseless rumors," he said. He said Anak Krakatau was a young volcano. It had risen from the sea to a height of 400 meters over the past 73 years, he said.
