Agung volcano (Bali, Indonesia): sudden new explosion early this morning leads to ash fall, but no major eruption expected

The volcano erupted again early this morning (30 Dec 2018) at 04:09 local time. A moderately sized sudden explosion lasted for 3 minutes 8 seconds, caused by accumulated overpressure of gasses inside and under the lava plug that had formed on top of the conduit by the magma erupted in the 2017-18 eruption. The Indonesian Volcanological Survey reported that „fire“ (i.e. incandescence) was…