The Agung Volcano in Indonesia's Bali Island has been re-activated. Authorities have reported that the volcanic eruption lavas have risen to 3,000 meters, while the region's alarm situation has been reported to have risen to the second highest level.

It was announced that the second explosion, which took place within one week in the volcano 75 kilometers away from the tourist center of the island, was still in effect, but the Bali flights were not affected and the Ngurah Rai Airport on the island was in operation.

National Disaster Response Agency spokesman Sutopo Nugroho said that the volcano's lavas smoke goes in the southeast direction to the neighboring island Lombok, Garuda Indonesia Airline has announced that they will have to cancel 18 round-trip flights due to lavas, and will not be able to fly to the island until the lava flow is over and the situation returns to normal.

The National Anticorruption Agency spokesman on 22 October raised alarm levels to the highest level for the Agung volcano, causing more than 130 thousand residents who were concerned about a sudden evacuation to leave their homes and shelter in temporary shelters. However, after a significant decline in the activity of the volcano last month, officials had lowered the alarm level to a degree below the highest level.

Sutopo, the spokesman for the National Disaster Response Agency, said that the total number of people who had to leave their places because of the activities of the volcano and not returned are found to be around 25 thousand people. Sutopo said the alarm level for the volcano is now in the second highest level.  

Agung Volcano at a height of 3 thousand 31 meters. In the eruptions took place from 1963 to 1964, lasted almost a year, about a thousand and 200 hundred people lost their lives. Located at the intersection of the tectonic plates known as the "fire circle", there are 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia.

ILKHA