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The volcano began erupting at 2:46 AM, spewing a 1.5 km column of ash into the air. The volcano's plume of ash reached a height of 50,000 feet (15 km), said Japan's Meteorology Agency, which had initially been on alert for the possibility that the volcano could trigger a tsunami. A damaged bridge was covered in volcanic ash. With 142 volcanoes, Indonesia has the world's largest population living close range to volcano, with 8.6 million people within 10 km (6 miles) of one. The deadly late-November quake that hit in West Java was 5.6 magnitude but at a shallow depth.
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