Mount Sinabung erupts ashes

Mount Sinabung on Sumatra Island in Indonesia erupted on August 10, firing ash.
It was the second eruption of the volcano in as many days.
Mount Sinabung is one of the 120 active volcanoes in the country and it is also prone to seismic activity on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a ring of volcanoes and moving fault lines surrounding the Pacific Ocean.
An active volcano is that which has had at least one eruption during the past 10000 years.
Pacific Ring of Fire is home to around 450 volcanoes including three of world’s four most active volcanoes – Mount St. Helens in the USA, Mount Fuji in Japan and Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. This area is also known as the circum-Pacific belt.