But on Saturday, Indonesia's volcanology centre lowered Agung's alert level from four to three, citing a decline in its activity. Under the new alert level, the no-entry zone has been reduced to four kilometres from Agung's peak, an area with no residents, allowing all evacuees to return home, authorities said. "The public activities as well as the tourism in Bali have been declared safe, there is no more disturbance from Mount Agung's activities," Indonesia's energy minister Ignasius Jonan said in a statement. Currently nearly 20,000 evacuees are sheltering in 180 locations across the island. Indonesia, the world's most active volcanic region, lies on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic and seismic activities.

Source: The Nation Bangkok February 10, 2018 05:26 UTC