Indonesia’s Mount Merapi erupts with bursts of lava and ash

Indonesia’s most volatile volcano on Sunday erupted on the densely populated island of Java, spewing smoke and ash high into the air and sending streams of lava and gasses down its slopes. No casualties were reported.Mount Merapi unleashed clouds of hot ash at least seven times since Sunday morning, as well as a series of fast-moving pyroclastic flows, a mixture of rock, debris, lava and gasses, according to Yogyakarta’s Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center. The rumbling sound…