more than 100,000 people - had been evacuated to temporary shelters, but that elsewhere villagers had returned to their homes to begin cleaning up. The 1,731-meter-high (5,680-foot-high) Mount Kelud in eastern Java - Indonesia's most densely populated island and home to more than half of the country's 240 million people - has been rumbling for several weeks and was under close observation. Kelud is among about 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia. The archipelagic nation is prone to volcanic eruptions and earthquakes because of its location on the so-called "Ring of Fire".
